Dolemite wrote:
] ] The Reader recounts the experience of photojournalist
] ] Warren Wimmer's attempts to photograph Anish Kapoor's
] ] sculpture, Cloud Gate (more commonly known as "the
] ] Bean"). When Wimmer set up his tripod and camera to shoot
] ] the sculpture, security guards stopped him, demanding
] ] that they show him a permit. Wimmer protested, replying
] ] that it's absurd that one needs to pay for a permit to
] ] photograph public art in a city-owned park.
]
]
] WTF? I found this linked on BoingBoing this morning and still
] can't quite understand how something like this ever happened.
] Public funds paid for a sculpture to go in a public park that
] the public can't take photographs of. The procurement officer
] definitely needs to have his or her pink slip on the way.

Exactly. I saw this yesterday and was amazed. Once again the question we are left with is- How the heck can people justify this.

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