--- title: This Teen Wants to Replace Bill Cosby's Bust With a Nearly Nude Statue description: It's titled "Fat Albert Cries for Dr. Huxtable" canonical: https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-06T00:43:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:36.662Z og:title: Check Out This Weird Bill Cosby Statue That Also Has Fat Albert og:description: It's titled "Fat Albert Cries for Dr. Huxtable" og:url: https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1f69f618bda7c53/69877df1e20a876a64a84f7b/15-0205-facries-300dpi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: 15-0205-facries-300dpi og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Check Out This Weird Bill Cosby Statue That Also Has Fat Albert twitter:description: It's titled "Fat Albert Cries for Dr. Huxtable" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1f69f618bda7c53/69877df1e20a876a64a84f7b/15-0205-facries-300dpi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Check Out This Weird Bill Cosby Statue That Also Has Fat Albert > Sponsored content. 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Golden Globes 2015: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Joke About Bill Cosby_ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 6, 2015 12:43 AM UTC  Image courtesy of Cory Allen Contemporary Art by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 6, 2015 12:43 AM UTC For one artist, protesting [Bill Cosby](http://time.com/3602131/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-allegations-guide/)‘s TV shows and [performances](http://time.com/3673098/bill-cosby-denver-standing-ovation/) amid the numerous sexual assault allegations against him wasn’t enough. [Rodman Edwards](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nude-statue-of-dr-huxtable-protests-cosbys-tv-hall-of-fame-busts-300031932.html), a high school freshman and artist, has sculpted a nude statue of Bill Cosby as America’s favorite TV dad—Dr. Cliff Huxtable—with another of Cosby’s most famous characters, _Fat Albert_, covering the not-safe-for-work areas of Huxtable’s physique. The sculpture, which is being proposed as a replacement for the busts of Cosby currently on display at television halls of fame, will soon open to the public at [Cory Allen Contemporary Art ](https://www.cacanet.com/)Showroom in St. Petersburg, Fla. starting Feb. 20. It’s compelling, seriously confusing, and titled “Fat Albert Cries for Dr. Huxtable”—oh, right, because Fat Albert is crying. If you’re scratching your head and furrowing your brow at the thought, trust us, you’re not alone. But Roman’s [explanation](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nude-statue-of-dr-huxtable-protests-cosbys-tv-hall-of-fame-busts-300031932.html) should do a bit to help clear up the murkiness: “As a fan, I think I just felt compelled to depict two of Bill Cosby’s creations at odds with each other, because Bill Cosby seems to be at odds with what I always thought Dr. Huxtable stood for.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/"},"headline":"Check Out This Weird Bill Cosby Statue That Also Has Fat Albert","datePublished":"2015-02-06T00:43:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:36.662Z","description":"It's titled \"Fat Albert Cries for Dr. Huxtable\"","url":"https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1f69f618bda7c53/69877df1e20a876a64a84f7b/15-0205-facries-300dpi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1f69f618bda7c53/69877df1e20a876a64a84f7b/15-0205-facries-300dpi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"15-0205-facries-300dpi","caption":"","creditText":"Image courtesy of Cory Allen Contemporary Art","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/","name":"Check Out This Weird Bill Cosby Statue That Also Has Fat Albert"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Golden Globes 2015: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Joke About Bill Cosby","description":"Golden Globes 2015: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Joke About Bill Cosby","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HCbcdLm1/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-12T01:32:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HCbcdLm1.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/","duration":"PT18S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3698294/bill-cosby-statue/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```