An item on the news this morning about an artist named Maria Alquilar. She's a mosaicist who totally cheesed the spelling of 11 words, mostly proper names, outside of the Livermore Public Library.
She was paid $40,000 to make the mosaic. Its definitely very cool but damn, lady, you've gotta spell Einstein correctly. And now they're going to give her another $6,000 to come back and fix it.
And, get this, the artist is pissed off that people are bothered by the misspellings. She thinks everyone should just appreciate her art and get over the misspellings.
That might not be so difficult if only the fucking mosaic weren't created right outside a library. It kind of offends me that she's so defensive and angry with everyone for even bringing up her shitty spelling.
Yeah, she's going to win this battle. And a generation of children just might grow up thinking that Albert Eistein and William Shakespeer were famous people.
Maria Alquilar, remember her name, remember her attitude, remember that she's expensive and can't spell and maybe remember to just not give her any more public arts projects until she learns how to spell.
[Update: Here's a pic from the news stories that are just picking it up now.]
[Second Update: Now Maria Alquilar is refusing to even repair her mistakes because of the media attention on her fuck-up. Nice. I hope she never gets another project because she is most obviously suffering from HUA disease, her head is firmly planted in her ass. HUA stands for Head Up Ass. Yep, that's her. I hope Livermore sues her repairs and damages.]
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