An amusing story, but not particularly well-written: Vancouver art controversy just a sign of the times. The art in question:
[A] member of the Vancouver Police Department strode into the ultra-cool Contemporary Art Gallery on a lovely, sunlit afternoon one day last week to inform the gallery that David Grandy wanted his signs back.The gallery was caught red-handed. The signs were right there, bold as brass, in the gallery's big front windows. They carried brightly coloured, somewhat mysterious words and acronyms, such as "HUFF," "B32U," "INFINITY" and "WORK CREW" stencilled on arrows.
According to the gallery, this was art, an enchanting installation piece called Production Postings by Vancouver artist Christian Kliegel.
The rather sneering tone of the article ('Contemporary art, of course, is not easy for the so-called ordinary person to grasp.') is a bit much - what's so hard to understand about this? It's a bit of a trifle, I suppose, but anyone who lives in Vancouver would probably recognize what the piece was about and be amused by it.
And seriously - those signs are worth $9 each?
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Posted by Bill Stilwell at June 29, 2006 09:25 AM