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\"Device<\/a>
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\nCC<\/a> (some rights reserved)<\/p>\n

The Canadian Press is reporting that the controversial sculpture, Device to Root Out Evil, located for the last 2 years in down-town Vancouver in a prominent location near Stanley Park, will be coming down.<\/p>\n

From the Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The decision to remove the sculpture, approved unanimously by Vancouver Park Board commissioners this week, has dismayed those who wanted to keep the piece’s topsy-turvy church spire where it is, firmly planted in the grass of Harbour Green Park.<\/p>\n

And it has rekindled debate on the role of public art in a city that yearns for world-class status but often succumbs, in the eyes of critics, to small-town thinking.<\/p>\n

“The Park Board couldn’t find a way to rise above the history and controversy of this sculpture,” George Wagner, an associate professor at the University of B.C. school of architecture, said yesterday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sculpture of an upside-down chapel has had a controversial life. First, it was rejected by the director of New York City’s public art fund when he cited fears that religious leaders would be offended.<\/p>\n

A few years later, Standford University in California backed out of a deal to buy the sculpture after extensive complaints by churchgoers.<\/p>\n

Now that the Vancouver Parks Board have voted to remove this artwork citing, “community pressure”, they are taking public opinions on the decision at the next board meeting.<\/p>\n

The artist, Dennis Oppenheim, denies any anti-religious design to the piece. <\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t readily grasp the offensive nature of an upside-down-church. What is it that makes this artwork offensive and should it go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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