Mocking up the public art
The Pasadena Center Operating Company put out mock-ups -- size and massing only -- of the much-discussed proposed public art pieces in front of the Civic Auditorium on East Green Street last Wednesday night.
The mock-ups will be out there this Wednesday the 21st from 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon as well.
Last week, everyone in the Hatfields and McCoys tussling over this showed up to check it out. You could define it as preservationists vs. contemporary art aficionados -- hardly mtually exclusive circles in most cases. Most are friends in every other political and social arena but this one. Here, they don't agree on one little thing. It's either great and contemporary and necessary or it's blocking the classic architecture and sight lines.
Above is the low-tech version of the German guy's reedy light poles; below is the New York guy's Mosque of the K'aaba, er, Thinking Hats. Actually, the black curtains create an illusion that is most unfair, 'cause the piece itself would be more see-through and walk-under. But it would be tall.
