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"This is really not too much to ask of anyone providing goods or services for profit."

40,000 bucks is fair market value for this piece. She delivered the piece under a contract wherein the work cannot be altered without the artist's permission. She thinks it's O.K. and I agree with her. The deal is done. Join the grammar police here and vote kerry, the grammitically correct empty suit. Give me Texasisms, primitive mispelled art and solid clear thinking anyday.

"She delivered the piece under a contract wherein the work cannot be altered without the artist's permission."

That may be true, and she may not be LEGALLY obligated to fix it but my point is not about legal obligations, it is about providing "quality product...for money received" as I said. I, myself, have a business in the music industry where I provide a finished product to customers (this is also in the art field) and I would never shortchange my customers by giving them something that any reasonable person would be unhappy with, even though I could legally get away with it. To do such a thing is unethical.

Also, you allege that anyone who criticizes her spelling mistakes is part of the "grammar police" and would vote for John Kerry. This is simply a fallacious argument of distraction and has nothing to do with the logical argument.

40,000 bucks is fair market value for this piece. She delivered the piece under a contract wherein the work cannot be altered without the artist's permission. She thinks it's O.K. and I agree with her.

One would think even an 'artist' like you would agree that it would be embarrassing for the library to have a mural with a lot of misspelled names on it. The library should put it away and sue her. She obviously violated some code of ethics, that is, if artists have any.