Posted on 08/31/2022 7:41:38 AM PDT by lowbridge
Sculpture Space, a residency program for sculptors in Utica, New York, was ransacked and severely damaged by vandals in the early hours of Sunday, August 28. The Utica Police Department told Hyperallergic that an investigation is ongoing. The motive for the attack remains unclear.
Several donated pieces of artwork for an upcoming charity auction were damaged or destroyed in the raid, Sculpture Space said in a Facebook statement today.
The 44-year-old organization provides up to 25 artists-in-residence annually with housing, studio space, and equipment. The damage to the arts center, located in an old industrial plant, is extensive.
According to Sculpture Space, the vandals used materials they found inside the studios — including paint, sledgehammers, and torches — to smash windows, wreck the office (which included computers and archival documents), destroy kitchen equipment, flood the bathrooms and hallways, and destroy furniture, lighting fixtures, and video technology. The vandals also stole the artists’ bicycles, according to the statement. Sculpture Space has not yet returned Hyperallergic’s request for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at hyperallergic.com ...
Utica Sculpture Residency Vandals Are Under the Age of 11, Police Say
According to the Utica Police Department, the children — ages eight to 11 — were found hurling rocks at cars with paint on their shoes.
They better expedite the investigation. There is a statue of limitations on this.
Darn Amish
Did they take the handles?
The nerve.
The 44-year-old organization provides up to 25 artists-in-residence annually with housing, studio space, and equipment... The vandals also stole the artists' bicycles, according to the statement.
I was guessing until I read the update ... that it was an interpersonal thing, someone got rejected or kicked out of the co-op.
Truth is stranger than fiction I guess.
Also, I feel sorry for the organizers and artists. Their art might not be what we’d like in our homes but the participants put a lot of time and sometimes expensive material into their work.
Bankrupt their parents.
If they even have parents.
Most so-called art is pure junk. But that is no reason to destroy it.
OMG too funny! Some feral urban li’l chilluns go wild and trash an ultra-liberal enclave. It doesn’t get any better than this!
> The motive for the attack remains unclear. <
I’m guessing it had something to do with Climate Change.
annually with housing, studio space, and equipment.
yer tax dollars at work...
And the security cam footage is... nowhere to be found.
The FBI will be right on it.
They will interview all persons attending Sunday Mass.
You know how violent those Christians are.
Who’s to say that isn’t art?
Nah, just youts expressing their "Artistic License".
My first guess was one of the “artists” did it to “start a conversation” about racism.
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