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Vandals Ransack Sculpture Residency in Upstate New York
hyperallergic.com ^ | August 28, 2022 | Elaine Velie

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.

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KEYWORDS: defundthepolice; newyork; sculpturespace; utica; whiteprivilege
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Update:

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.

1 posted on 08/31/2022 7:41:38 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Rebelbase; mylife; gundog; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion

They better expedite the investigation. There is a statue of limitations on this.


2 posted on 08/31/2022 7:44:32 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: lowbridge

Darn Amish


3 posted on 08/31/2022 7:44:53 AM PDT by The Louiswu (If your child requires validation from Chuck E. Cheese you have failed as a parent. )
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To: lowbridge

Did they take the handles?


4 posted on 08/31/2022 7:48:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge
The vandals also stole the artists’ bicycles, according to the statement

The nerve.

5 posted on 08/31/2022 7:49:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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.

6 posted on 08/31/2022 7:52:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: lowbridge
Thanks?


7 posted on 08/31/2022 7:57:20 AM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: lowbridge

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.


8 posted on 08/31/2022 8:01:42 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: lowbridge

Bankrupt their parents.
If they even have parents.


9 posted on 08/31/2022 8:05:36 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Larry Lucido
Stat-ute.
10 posted on 08/31/2022 8:06:12 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: lowbridge

Most so-called art is pure junk. But that is no reason to destroy it.


11 posted on 08/31/2022 8:28:31 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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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!


12 posted on 08/31/2022 8:29:19 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: lowbridge

> The motive for the attack remains unclear. <

I’m guessing it had something to do with Climate Change.


13 posted on 08/31/2022 8:37:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: lowbridge

annually with housing, studio space, and equipment.

yer tax dollars at work...


14 posted on 08/31/2022 8:42:26 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: lowbridge

And the security cam footage is... nowhere to be found.


15 posted on 08/31/2022 8:47:16 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: lowbridge

The FBI will be right on it.

They will interview all persons attending Sunday Mass.

You know how violent those Christians are.


16 posted on 08/31/2022 8:49:39 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: lowbridge

Who’s to say that isn’t art?


17 posted on 08/31/2022 8:51:35 AM PDT by exPBRrat (.)
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To: lowbridge
Nearly all of the sculptors worked in abstracts.
According to them the the damage done by the vandals was described as "groundbreaking" and "spectacular".
18 posted on 08/31/2022 8:52:16 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Leaning Right
"> The motive for the attack remains unclear. < I’m guessing it had something to do with Climate Change."

Nah, just youts expressing their "Artistic License".

19 posted on 08/31/2022 8:56:20 AM PDT by egfowler3 (KungFlu, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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To: lowbridge

My first guess was one of the “artists” did it to “start a conversation” about racism.


20 posted on 08/31/2022 9:31:12 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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