And Gaudere’s Law bites me on the ass once more. That should read “misspelled”.
:smack:
According to this article:
I agree that there’s plenty of blame to go around up to this point, the city councillors don’t have complete freedom of action:
So, I can see three courses of action:
- Get her consent to have it fixed by a third party.
- Have a group of citizens show up and fix it over the weekend, and have the City Council announce on Monday to here that it was “Shocked, shocked I tell you to hear that such things go on in our city (smirk).” Let her bring charges, which would require her to show up in Livermore to testify. I bet they wouldn’t hear a peep out of her.
- Offer her enough money to swallow her wounded pride and come to Livermore to fix it. Pay her with a cheque that has her name horribly misspelled, and marked “Only valid upon verification of payee’s ID”. Let’s see her try to deposit that… Yes I know this wouldn’t work, but 'tis sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar…
Other Alquilarisms I enjoyed:
“The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people,” (I’d say the citizens of Livermore are pretty well united right now, thanks to you.)
“The people that are into humanities, and are into (William) Blake’s concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words. In their mind, the words register correctly.”
“None of us are particularly good spellers anymore because of computers. When you are in a studio full of clay, you don’t give it much thought.”
(bolding mine)
should read “**announce ** that it was…”
{shakes fist at Gaudere}
Well, then it’s even more the committee’s fault, for NOT insisting on signing off on it.
I think they should leave it as it is, but add a plastic overlay with a big
F
on it.
For some reason talentless art is being peddled on this side of the pond too.
Here we see a bed which sold for £150,000.
Words fail me.
‘Self-styled ‘Mad Tracey from Margate’ (her own description) Emin was not actually nominated for the Award until 1999, despite that fact that by then, as Stallabrass writes, she was already ‘famous for being famous’.’
Well, the good/bad news is that I read it’s already showing wear and damage from the elements (and also that they dropped something heavy on it during construction so it also has a hole :smack: ) So in a few years they can chalk it up to experience and sledgehammer it out of there.
Personally, I’d put up a sign, “Find the spelling errors!” Fun for the whole family and it restores the pretense of honor on all sides.
Any Dopers gone and seen this thing yet? Or better yet, taken a picture? It’d be nice to have some documentary evidence of our superiority. 
And the Canadian government paid $1.76 million for this mess. If you’re artsy and pretentious enough, I guess you can convince people to buy any junk you throw together. I enjoy modern art, but it’s stripes, people.
On the upside, there’s nothing misspelled in it!
As for the library artist - the art chose the words? No, dum-dum, you did, and you chose them wrong. Stop calling it “artistic vision” and buy yourself a dictionary. Why can’t people admit to their mistakes?
The initial link has several pictures of the mural.
I saw it on the news before I read about it here. I meant evidence of a Doper there, laughing at the thing. 
Private citizens with dynamite are still on, right?
Sloppy work, just completely sloppy. And tacky, too.
An artist (painter and photographer) friend of mine once defended it on the ground that it had qualities that couldn’t be captured by film, and that you actually had to be in the gallery to enjoy.
I still haven’t verified that one for myself, though.
Dyslexia is only a misspelling of “daily sex”.
The looser you define your art, the less corporeal the meaning gets.
If you want your art so disconnected from reality that it no longer has to reflect reality, it’s lost its strength… now you’re just spouting gibberish.
Strictly speaking, I think the National Gallery is a crown corp, so it’s not like anyone we voted for actually chose to spend money on that.
On the other hand, I am a fan of Orange over Blue
From the second article in the OP
Something tells me there is some sort kick back deal behind all this mess.
While I do think that it’s stupid that she misspelled the words, I know that on at least one occasion I have misspelled my own name. I was concentrating on the shape of the letters more than on the letters themselves (I was writing on a t-shirt with an uncooperative paint marker), and it came out “Linsay” instead of “Lindsay.”
But 11 different mistakes? Sheesh.
In all fairness, Shakespeare lived in the days before standardized spelling, and most people had a variety of ways to spell their names…
I just saw the piece in question a couple of weeks ago (I’m a librarian, so when I take a trip, I visit libraries). I did not notice the misspellings; it’s a very busy piece, with lots of small images, and I didn’t look at it all that closely. It has images of people, animals, plants, and all sorts of stuff crammed into a circular shape. Usually, misspellings hit me between the eyes.
It seems to me that the professional thing to do would be to fix it for no extra charge; it was a commission and it should be done correctly. I can understand the original mistakes (I once wrote “Happy Annivesary” on a cake)–when you’re working closely on something that isn’t primarily writing, it’s easier to get it wrong. But it sounds like she wasn’t too concerned about the spelling anyway!