Pissing contest breaks out in NY art world

Pug statue is now pissing on "Fearless Girl" down on Wall Street.

City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the Fearless Girl statue being placed across from Wall Street’s Charging Bull — has decided to retaliate with a work of his own.

Gardega created a statue of a small dog, titled Pissing Pug, and his sloppily crafted pooch takes direct aim at Fearless Girl — or, at least, at her left leg.

“This is corporate nonsense,” Gardega told The Post of Fearless Girl, saying it was put opposite artist Arturo Di Modica’s famed bull as a publicity stunt by a Boston-based financial firm.

The Upper West Side artist sniffed that he even made his dog particularly poorly just to stick it to Fearless Girl even more.

“I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull,” said Gardega, who has never met the other statues’ creators

I'd have preferred that the creator of original bull statue been the one to install the pug, but this is kind of neat nonetheless: artist creates art, PR company sticks up an opposing sculpture to drum up publicity, third artist responds by placing a third piece to protest the second, and, I hope, more artists will soon weigh in, pro and con, with their own works. We won't be able to walk on the sidewalks down there, but it will still be fun to see the collection.