Posted on 08/09/2005 7:21:28 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
“What’s in a name?” Shakespere asked. Make that “Shakespeare.” Miami artist Maria Alquilar, much maligned for 11 misspellings that popped up in the educational mural she designed for the Livermore public library last year, spent today under the hot sun correcting her mistakes. In addition to fixing the bard’s name, she changed “Eistein” to “Einstein,” “Gaugan” to “Gauguin” and more. But Alquilar, who at first claimed artistic license and said she wasn’t going to return to fix the faux pas because people were being too mean about it, was giving no media interviews as she worked under a broad-brimmed straw hat and blue tent. She sliced and diced the tiles with power tools, protected from the public by a barrier. She wagged her finger at a television cameraman and threatened to throw a rock at a print photographer. “No pictures of me!” she yelled. “If I’m in it, I’m going to sue you.” Apparently, Alquilar wanted to return quietly to do the edits, for which city officials are paying her $6,000 plus travel expenses. That’s on top of the $40,000 she received for creating the 16-foot circular mosaic, made up of 175 historical names and cultural words. But after she arrived Sunday, word spread, and today she had a consistent audience for her work, which she expected to complete today or Wednesday. Assistant City Manager Jim Piper assured reporters that city officials were spell-checking Alquilar’s replacement tiles. “We certainly believe they are spelled correctly,” he said. Livermore officials selected Alquilar in 2000 to create a mosaic at the entrance to Livermore’s new library, which opened in May 2004. Icons representing science, art, literature and history surround a tree of life in the center. Library patrons were of varied opinions about whether a name by any other spelling smelled as sweet.
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Miami artist Maria Alquilar works on her art piece outside the front entrance to the Livermore library on Tuesday, August 9, 2005. She arrived in Livermore on Sunday to correct the $40,000 ceramic mural she created, replacing tiles containing misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures. Chronicle photo by Michael Maloney
Even money, she screws up again.
Miami artist Maria Alquilar takes a break while working on her art piece. Chronicle photo by Michael Maloney
Ahh, the luxury of being paid "$6,000 plus travel expenses" to correct your own incompetent work that should have been done right the first time.... must be government work!
Crap spelled correctly is still crap. The mural is a piece of junk that is not worth anywhere near what Livermore spent on it.
There's a face that just begs to have a pie mashed into it.
I understand Barbara Streisand was her copy editor...
...or did I spell "Barbra" wrong???
By an unejikated ijit.
Absolutely ridiculous. Has Livermore no shame? Having an unejikated ijit do an educational mural is like having Saddam Hussein do a human rights mural.
Livermore should've had it ripped up.
No, you spelled "Barbara" correctly. "Barbra" spells "Barbara" incorrectly.
What a looser.
She needs some bigger sunglasses, those don't completely cover her head.
Earlier story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240116/posts
I thought "Barbra" was a push-up bra worn in bars to entice males.
I also thought that Streisand was "Babawawa". Or maybe that's Babawawawawa Walters I'm thinking of.
I believe this is one of the items in the communist manifesto: Make art obscure and meaningless, deter people from idolizing things other than the state.
Deliberately avoiding opinions of the mural in general, or does the paper think they already "covered"
the brouhaha when it was first unveiled?
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