{"id":647,"date":"2006-03-25T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=647"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:05:32","slug":"public-art-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/03\/25\/public-art-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Art Abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/dominoes-BS.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI was walking past the parkette at the S-E corner of Bloor and Spadina on Thursday night about 7:00 when I saw three guys on bikes riding on, leaning on and doing tricks on the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/artonfile.com\/html\/projectnotes.lasso?code=PAIX-31-05\">domino sculpture<\/a> on this corner. They weren&#8217;t even kids &#8212; they were university-aged at least.<\/p>\n<p>We at <em>Spacing<\/em> are <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=395\">generally supportive of BMX<\/a> and skateboarding &#8212; we&#8217;ve published articles arguing for improving facilities for these sports in Toronto. But the activity I saw on Thursday just seems thuggishly abusive. This isn&#8217;t simply street infrastructure they were biking on &#8212; it&#8217;s public art. A lot of money and effort was put into this sculpture in order to make this intersection more attractive for everyone in the city. It is a wonderfully interactive sculpture, designed to be sat and leaned upon, but riding a bike on it is a whole different story, creating vastly more pressure and erosion and thus threatening to shorten the life of the sculpture. Plus, of course, it prevents anyone else from using the sculpure to sit on, as was originally intended. To me, this kind of behaviour is selfish and gives the sport a bad name. Am I being old-fogey-ish? I&#8217;m curious what others think.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/aidanfotos.com\">Bouke Salverda<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking past the parkette at the S-E corner of Bloor and Spadina on Thursday night about 7:00 when I saw three guys on bikes riding on, leaning on and doing tricks on the popular domino sculpture on this corner. They weren&#8217;t even kids &#8212; they were university-aged at least. 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