“I am in awe.”
I was a student at UBC from ‘62-’66. The great Sculpture caper referred to in this article was September ‘63, IIRC.
As a second year student, I was friends with several ‘active’ engineering undergrads at the time - my room-mate and others from residence.
The chicken-wire and cement ‘sculptures’ were produced in late August and placed in various spots on campus - they were sort of formless Moorean shapes with holes and knobs and such. After a week of campus controversy in September engendered by engineering students published complaints about the ugliness of modern art, red-jacketed louts armed with sledge-hammers smashed them all to bits one sunny lunch-hour.
The downtown press went crazy over these savage barbarians - their were booming editorials in Sun and Province denouncing and bemoaning the collapse of civilization.
On campus, the lefty artistic crowd were openly weeping. This went on for two days as I recall. Then the engineers revealed their spoof and challenged the Establishment to justify their taste, or lack of, in art.
Lots of laughs!
It was a good time to be 18 years old. ;^)
Glorious - and hilarious! :D