Exclusive | Nutty professor who held machete to Post reporter's neck rambles about 'violent fascists' in defense of her $407K taxpayer-funded artwork

"This is not my first encounter with the tabloid, but a continuation of a targeted attack, which has everything to do with the fascist seizure of life that is all our reality now, but for Black, Indigenous, and colonized people globally has always been present, albeit at simmering temperatures."

"In her column, titled "Why My Public Art Drives the Right Nuts," she claims her media "crisis was not born yesterday, and since its inception, my permanent public artwork has kept the score," referring to her 23-foot-tall brick, steel and terracotta Marxist monstrosity called "Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx.""

Shellyne Rodriguez, a former CUNY professor, received $407,000 in taxpayer funding through the city's Percent for Arts program for a 23-foot monument titled "Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx." Rodriguez personally pocketed $81,400 as an artist fee. The monument, unveiled in November along Grand Concourse, features Marxist imagery including phoenixes, eyes, and clenched fists. After criticism of the project, Rodriguez published a column claiming victimhood and blaming "fascist" oppressors, without acknowledging or showing remorse for her 2023 assault on a Post reporter with a machete. The monument already shows structural cracks.

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