Screw that. Just call it "interactive art" and never wash it again.

what a bunch of farktards. Why don't they just put 8' chain link fences topped with concertina wire around them? wtf did they expect? What happens when these things get rained on?

Who are they to tell me my graffiti isn't art? Stuck up art snobs. Let's TP their houses. You know... art.

/art is lame

Sculpture is a tactile art. Expecting anything else in a sculpture garden setting is unrealistic and doomed to failure.

Graffiti artists and/or taggers should all be thrown into a volcano.

Seriously, nobody cares and you're ruining the neighborhood

Smart artists would make art that is designed to be interacted with.



/the kids love it

peeples is 2 dum fer art.

The artist should know better than to make works that will be displayed outside, in an open environment, that will be significantly altered by handling.


Henry Moore(p) was well aware of this, and his pieces have stood the test of time (and people) quite well.

People touch stuff. They can't help it. If they could, tigers wouldn't eat people at the zoo every other week. And that's a friggin TIGER. With fangs and claws and a reputation for killing and eating people.

So of course they touch your inanimate non-people-eating piece-of-shiat modern art, duh!

Open air art covered with graffiti? It's like we're in Europe!

/Hates Cary, NC.
//Loves this sculpture.
///Like the liquid-metal, fluid chrome look.

zerkalo

Open air art covered with graffiti? It's like we're in Europe!

Yes, but without the smell, failing economies, or false elitism we've all come to expect.

Prediction. This thread will break / is breaking / has broken down to:

1) Graffiti art is stupid. It's ugly and no one cares.

2) Public art is stupid. Graffiti those sumbiatches.

3) All art is stupid. I want my and everyone else's life to be miserable and joyless.

I wonder what bird crap does to these pieces of outdoor art work...

talk about clueless

yeh - these people get all this money and then expect to be able to turn parks into museums and expect people to creep around like they don't exist.

That's what these stupid master plans always forget - the people - where do the people go? Where are the pavement cafe's for folks to sit at at enjoy looking at the art and at the other people?

These parks are first and foremost social places - and if they want people to respect the space then they need to respect the people - otherwise the people make their opinions clear by marking their territory.

I can't believe the lack of awareness of people's need for a comfortable central place to sit and gather and talk...at all of these public places - that's why a lot of them end up getting ignored and trashed.

/Make place for the people in the space or expect negative reactions.
//Rant over.

Henry Moore(p) was well aware of this, and his pieces have stood the test of time (and people) quite well.

Not exactly...even some of his work has been stolen...

FTFA: ...as touching art has consequences."

Like touching J-lo's butt? Or Dolly Parton's boobies?

WTF is she talking about? Is it going to drastically alter my life if I touch it? It is OUTSIDE for cryin' out loud.

/See profile. I climb dumb public art. (In heels, as well)
//And mountains.

destitute college kid is my psychic friend

high tech graffiti

And as for graffiti, I like Banksy:

doomjesse: Not exactly...even some of his work has been stolen...


Yeah, but he still knew that it would happen, and always encouraged public interaction with his art.

Hell, he designed it to be safe to climb on in most cases

Fromt TFA: has had to power-wash handprints and scuff marks off some of the sculptures.

ummm isn't the power washing more of a problem than 'touching'?

explody_pup, Peter Wood, Nico Finn:

Amen

Don't touch the Scrap iron!

christ.

in halifax there is a giant boob..made of bronze..(so you don't confuse it with washington..)you can climb it and
walk on it..hell skateboard on it...

maybe it;s a wave..but it looks like a giant boob..

no wai!

Loved the graffiti I found in Oregon-



Basically says- Loggers knock down trees, and kill fish!
Nice- eh?

Live near a sculpture park in the middle of a big city. Nobody seems to fark with them. A whole lot of Henry Moore, Oldenberg, and a particularly famous Rodin, all open to the public.

Any graffiti artist who defaces sculpture or art without a decent reason is simply a jackass with a spraycan.

I like street art that is inventive and original, or at least has a sense of humor. (links to a decent 'street art' blog'

On the south side of Champaign-Urbana, there is a park with sculptures in it. You can walk right up to the sculptures. Yet no one vandalizes them.

I used to have a condo on Western Avenue that would now overlook that park. Guaranteed to not have a building pop up in between you and Eliott Bay.

When I lived there, it was nothing but old refinery vacant lot homeless encampment in the bushes goodness.

I imagine the owner of my pad is about 700k in equity richer.

Bastad.

I saw the plastonics exhibit the other day. It's not exactly art, though some people might think dead bodies are artistic. There was one dude with his guts all out and his brain exposed, and you could touch that guy. The other exhibits had big Do Not Touch signs everywhere, though I wonder who really needs to be told not to touch the Nervous System guy or Digestive System dude.

Taggers should be thrown into a vat of spraypaint and set on fire...Yes. All of them. Even that tagger that you love so much because his stuff is really "deep, man..."

There was one COPS episode where they catch the tagger red-handed (literally) painting the side of some local businessman's building. Turns out he was just some disaffected pseudo-intellectual college kid living off his parents' money and destroying local property with convoluted idealisms that strained to be pithy.

DIAF. TYVM.

They put sculptures outside next to the salty ocean and they're worried about handprints?

My favorite public sculpture is one in my home town of San Jose. It's Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god, made out of concrete. It was supposed to be a big, winged thing, but the city farked with the artist so much that the artist finally cranked this thing out (in what most people believe was a not-too-subtle fark you to the city). It happens to be consistent with Aztec artistic techniques, but I think you can see why it's nicknamed "The Dinosaur Turd". Bonus points: it's right in front of the Fairmont Hotel:

They should hand out free spraypaint at the entrance to the park. Vandals would protect the art from the elements and huffers would appreciate the art more.

Farking assinine. People like to TOUCH things. Makes it feel more real and helps people relate to it better. If they wanted to create 'hands off' art they should've put it in a friggin museum.

Oh well. Our tax dollar at work yet again.

.....On the south side of Champaign-Urbana, there is a park with sculptures in it. You can walk right up to the sculptures. Yet no one vandalizes them.

The night before the first Farm Aid concert, I watered one of those sculptures.

There is an absolutely crappy sculpture next to the Springfield (Oregon) City Hall that I wish someone would vandalize. It's a rhino with a figure of a man doing a one-handed handstand on the back of the rhino. Sitting on the man's upturned feet is a bird of some sort. Our tax dollars at work. The "artist" didn't initially make allowances for the local climate and the statute started to "melt", so it had to be repaired to the tune of over $20,000 on top of the initial price tag.

Old enough to know better - Farking assinine. People like to TOUCH things. Makes it feel more real and helps people relate to it better.

That's exactly what I told Katherine Heigl!

Needless to say, she and I are still "having trouble communicating."

In Chicago, people climb on, and slide down the Picasso all the time. It's one of the great things about living in Chicago.

For everyone that's saying "it's outside, it rains. It's near the ocean. Salt air. Corrosion. Blah," maybe the sculpture has a specific way in which it weathers. Maybe this is intended. Maybe greasy hand prints affect the weathering process. In a way that is not intended.
/See yesterday for sentences longer than 5 words.

Look, but don't touch!
Touch, but don't taste.
Taste... but don't swallow.

/got nuthin'

Me thinks a little visit to the new sculpture park is in order.

Peter Wood: www.barcodeart.com

high tech graffiti

that upc is for a 2 liter bottle of pepsi(p)

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Don't touch stuff in a park???

How do they tell the animals?

Ahh..one of the sculptures is by Serra. I suppose people can say what they want about the colored tones that appear from the 'weathering' (rust) of his work, but a few fingerprints can only improve his crap. Somehow St. Louis ended up with a piece of his 'work' as a public art project. I think its best use to date has been for the homless to piss on.

billb: In Chicago, people climb on, and slide down the Picasso all the time. It's one of the great things about living in Chicago.

Those Agora statues in Grant Park are the same way. I didn't notice any graffiti the last time I saw them. And they were free, which is the best part about them!

Your Government at work.

nuff said.

These people are badly full of shiat.

"There's absolutely nothing you can do about it," she said. "Some of us come from a museum world, in which the public is not allowed to touch anything. That works inside but not out. We can hope that people learn to treat outdoor sculpture with respect."

You can touch pretty much anything you can reach in the Lourve. You can touch the 'Dying Slave' by Michaelangelo, 'The Kiss' by some French guy I forget his name - and lots of other truly priceless artifacts. Why, you ask? BECAUSE IN REALITY IT'S DAMN HARD TO fark UP.

Now some conservator is going to launch into a speil about the fragility of marble - to which I say - yeah, right. The David sat outside the Palazzo Vecchio for how many years - and it's fine.

Next - who in their right farking mind would put an Alexander Calder in an unwalled public park. Do they have 24 hour security? If they have shiat with people writing their name on whatever bizzareness Richard Serra had to offer - I am going to assume NOT. What farking pretentious moron puts that much valueable art in a very nice place with no bloody security? That's really stupid. I mean - allright - you are going to have things in public places where the public will spray paint, piss on, write their name on, etc. So why not have pieces appropriate to that setting? You know there are these new paint things that are spray paint proof? There are many building materials that are positively peachy and are not harmed by people crawling on them, also.

People like this piss me off because it's like the height of imposition to expect everyone to behave themselves around an unattended Alexander Calder left out in a public park. Someone will fark it up - then the curators will whine and biatch about how miserable the 'lesser classes' truly are. It's like a self fulfilling prophecy. There are thousands of well maintained sculpture gardens all over the world with varying levels of security. They are designed for people to truly interact with - not hoover around like butterflies at an exhibition.

///Hates art snobs

///Hates STUPID art snobs more.

M-G: Somehow St. Louis ended up with a piece of his 'work' as a public art project. I think its best use to date has been for the homless to piss on.

He's not a very nice person, either. Google him sometime when you are bored.

85 million. not like there's other thing to solve....oh I don't know... TRAFFIC!