They're having the builders in at Weston Park Museum. I pointed out the current state of construction to someone I know, and she said there was an artist famous for that.

Illustrated here, with two colour plates:
http://www.g7smy.myby.co.uk/butisitart.htm

I did email Sheffield Galleries about this, but so far I have failed to receive a response.

K.

Originally posted by karl101
They're having the builders in at Weston Park Museum. I pointed out the current state of construction to someone I know, and she said there was an artist famous for that.

Illustrated here, with two colour plates:
http://www.g7smy.myby.co.uk/butisitart.htm

I did email Sheffield Galleries about this, but so far I have failed to receive a response.

K.

Does it matter ? Much better they spend the money available doing a good job on the renovation than squandering some of it to make the temporary protective polythene aesthetically appealing.

Christo's is an art installation, Weston Park's is scaffolding. The latter happens to cover an art gallery but I think you're trying to contrive a point there. It really is just scaffolding and needn't be anything else.

With my limited art knowledge I reckon that the Western Park gettup is more of an installation than the stuff that one-trick pony Christo does. Much more hardware involved for a start.

sorry wrong thread........

I'm hoping that the 2 million gallery facelift will give us something to be proud of. I don't care what it looks like. I care what will be in it...