Howdy!
Yesterday Kate of the lovely and wonderful Montreal City Weblog pointed me to this article by Nathalie Petrowski about how Loto-Quebec is dismantling a mural they commissioned by Serge Lemoyne.
While Ms. Petrowski does a fine job of parroting what the Serge Lemoyne Foundation told her, she neglects a much larger and significant problem. This is not the first time the product from 1% for art has been moved, dismantled torn down and destroyed. Ms. Petrowski seems to think that the Lemoyne mural is an isolated incident that might become a larger problem, when in fact it is business as usual, and it is only a matter of time before "the problem" becomes really significant and museums here start selling off bits of their collection or things worse...
