Friday, May 27, 2011

Rogue Art: a Two-Sided Coin

Recently a crew of “construction workers” had an assignment at a railroad bridge in Encinitas, California. The bridge was perfectly intact, as was the support for it on which they worked. Their job was to erect the work of art pictured above. With high-strength glue they attached the image of a deranged cat with a gold tooth apparently in love to the public structure. According to the North County Times, officials are fed up with trying to crack down on what they refer to as “graffiti”, and have no intention of actually hunting down the artists responsible. They will consider their work done when the mosaic is removed.

On the one side: unauthorized art is property defamation and a crime. [READ MORE HERE]

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