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Shreveport Won the BAD ART Poll !
Received over 40% of the Public Opinion Poll Votes !
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The City of Shreveport paid $15,000 for this odd shaped planter full of rubble and weeds.
The city's art-selectors called it a sculpture.
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The City of Shreveport paid about $15,000 each for these 10' tall corner decorations. Comments overheard were "looks unfinished" and "childlike" to "move 'em out of downtown."
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These eye-catching beauties graced a corner of downtown Shreveport for a year. The city only "rented" this creation for a year, it is now gone.
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This one sustained damage in This one occupies the same block
an accident and was destroyed. as the new downtown City Hall.
Another Sad Story . . .
The City of Shreveport paid $40,000 for this awful depiction of Dr. Martin Luther King in what was supposed to be, a memorable image. It was so bad, it sat in a warehouse for over a year before the city had the nerve to install it. Finally, on January 25th, the Shreveport City Council voted to sell it for scrap.
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SUGGESTION:
Most artists appreciate efforts to install art in our cities and support those efforts through their organizations.
Don't let so-called "experts" make all the choices. Be very vocal when the a selection committee is appointed.
Elected officials are very sensitive to public out-cry, so make your voices heard in your city.
Remember:
Many people have a lot of talent, however, they don't all have good taste.
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OTHER REASONS
WE HAVE BAD ART
Some of our museum directors encourage the proliferation of "shock" art as a means of gaining public attention and publicity.
These so-called works of art include ten-foot tall nude paintings with photographic realism, lewd and sexually explicit drawings, or sculptural assemblies of mundane objects.
The recent publicity flap over elephant dung paintings in Brooklyn, NY overshadowed an otherwise awful exhibit and is typical of this type of museum activity.
The Guggenheim, of all places, has placed sexually explicit "computer art" on its website to "show" the cutting edge of the technology.
Hopefully, in the next century, art will survive this exercise in bad taste.
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How Shreveport works . . .
The city leaders have ignored advice from such prestigious groups as the Red River Sculpture Society, the Louisiana Artists, and other qualified membership groups based in Shreveport.
Instead, recent administrations have supported the decisions of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council, a division of Shreveport Parks and Recreation Department.
What you see is what they got!
"Some of the Worst Public Art in America"
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