October 7, 2004
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LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - It didn't take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city's new library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures.
City council members voted Monday to authorize paying another $6,000, plus expenses, to fly the artist up from Florida to fix the errors.
Reached at her Miami studio Wednesday, Maria Alquilar offered no apologies for the misspellings.
"The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said.
"They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work."
Comments (10)
Can't correctly spelled names also unite people? I thought artists presented a model of what they will scale up to mural size. If the misspellings are contained in the model, then the city council should have questioned the artist as to "purpose of the work--to unite" instead of spelling right.
Oh, for crying out loud...Isn't that an odd saying?
Maybe he meant it was supposed to untie people.
They are denigrating her work? Shit, I think it's safe to say that she denigrated her own work...
Hahahahhahaha~ can't she say something else better?
RE: comment on my site, Sumarra may well be B'rer Fox in the Briar Patch. My prayer is that it is continued scraping and abrading of a ghastly infection.
well here's someone i haven't heard from in a while
thank you
LOL...well it is a palace of learning after all...
shes just a fucking idiot who cant spell. But the even bigger idiots are the ones who are paying her AGAIN to correct her fucking mistake
Paint over the stupid thing.
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