Misspelled library art do-over a no go says artist
Original story - Remedial Art - TPAC’s $50,000 floor mural features several badly misspelled words
I’m going to go slam my head into a wall now.
I hope the library kept the receipt.
We could give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she isn’t just throwing a fit, and she really is upset that people are paying attention to the surface of the work, rather than the meaning.
So what does this mural represent?
Why, the joys of knowledge and the importance of learning, I assume 
In all fairness, Sh___k_s_p__r spelled his name numerously different ways throughout his career.
There is no excuse for “Eistien” or “Gough,” however.
She’s no Eistein. Not even a Shakespere or a Michaelangelo.
I’ve seen various artworks containing mispelled text, and it drives me mental. It suggests that the artist doesn’t care enough to bother to check spelling, and that’s bad art no matter how you look at it.
If it were art she’d created on her own and later tried to sell, then fine: it would have been better if she’d doublechecked the spellings, but a the end of the day, that’s an aesthetic judgement. If she wanted the art to be misspelled, that’s her call.
But this was a commissioned piece. That means she does what the customer wants, or she gives back the money they paid for it. And it was commissioned by a public library. This big (and, may I add, ugly) hunk of public art with all these really obvious misspellings of famous people’s names reflects poorly on the library. Generally speaking, I think its better to resolve conflicts without resorting to the courts, but if I were in charge of that library, I’d be talking lawsuit right about now.
Reminds me of Siobhan Fahey’s post-Bananarama band, Shakespears Sister. The name was originally going to be Shakespeare’s Sister, but a designer accidentally dropped the final “e.” Then the apostrophe wandered off somehow.
"“The art chose the words.”
I guess that’s just another way of saying “I’m a dumbass with a huge ego.”
They were even going to pay her $6000 to fly back and fix it and she still refused. Sheesh.
That’s true, but I think they were all early in life. In any case she made ten other errors, so it’s pretty clear she was lazy, not confused by spelling variants.
So that’s where Hear’Say got their apostrophe from 
The Ivory Edvcation Tower nitpickers have no right to dis the artist over the spelling. They looked over the work in progress, and none of those misspelling bee champions told her of the errors.
It should have raised a red flag when she submitted a “Proposal for Liberry Mural.”
Actually, all six of Shakespeare’s (commonly-accepted) signatures come from the last 6 or so years of his life, and three of them from shortly before his death.
Ah, interesting. Thanks. Now, how many different ways did Einstein spell his name? 
While the “artist” is undoubtedly a moron, the real prize for stupidity goes to the city councillors who voted to offer her $6000 and expenses to fix all those spelling errors.
Oh, the humanities.
If her bosses signed off on the final design before she set it in stone, so to speak, they haven’t got a leg to stand on. It’s not unheard of for an artist to be dyslexic, and it’s certainly not unheard for anyone–even an artist–to be a bad speller.
And I can tell for damn sure that she didn’t do all that in the dark; you know she had to submit a design before it went up. Someone during that process should have pointed out the errors.
Actually, the apostrophe was sliced, diced and julienned into the asterisk in front of *NSYNC. 
Heh. Maybe the library could sponsor a contest for the local elementary school kids: find all the spelling errors in the mural, win a dictionary.