The cleverest part: the entire project was funded by change collected from-you guessed it-parking meters. The clever part: at first glance the drawings look like shadows cast from Second Street's numerous parking meters. And for cheap! Craig Cree Stone was paid just $50,000 to paint dozens of drawings of animals, people and vehicles on the ground and walls. The first smart moved they made was by hiring a local resident. On Belmont Shore's well-to-do and beach adjacent Second Street, the Long Beach Arts Council decided there was a need for public art. I know I'm not one to judge, really, but I'll offer a better alternative. Moreover, only one of those exhibitions took place in a museum (the rest of the entries are either for galleries or too ambiguous to discern). Don't take my word for it, visit the Long Beach Art Council's map of local public art (don't click on districts 8 and 9 though, as they're apparently no-mans land and you'll get a 404!).Īnd do artists like Kathleen Caricof (who lives in, Denver, by the way) make their livings off of this kind of money? I ask because Caricof's online CV is rife with "Select public art commissions" like Orange Twist ("select" implies she's omitted a few sculptures, I assume) and it's actually pretty light on real exhibitions. This particular piece sits idly at the intersecion of Atlantic and 45th and ran the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency $104,000. It's an Orange Twist by Kathleen Caricof capitalized and italicized because - as you might guess - it's the title of Long Beach's newest addition to a long line of expensive, bad public art. Actually, it's not an orange abstraction.
So it's encouraging to see that the local powers that be have the time, resources and money to make things like the orange abstraction you see on my left. Vanilla ice cream swirled with orange sherbet. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. As mentioned before, my hometown is recovering from it's first (and hopefully last) political scandal in years, Long Beach's economy is in upheaval, with city council candidates not just entertaining the idea of city employee furloughs but picking it up, taking the idea of furloughs out to dinner and chatting endlessly with it from sundown to sunrise. Find Negroni Cocktail Orange Twist Pin On stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. There's no doubt that these are trying times around here.
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