Artist corrects her infamous spelling mistakes in Livermore mural

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Tuesday, August 9, 2005 | Kelly St. John and Suzanne Herel

[FreedomCalls]

This updates an earlier story on this.

[FreedomCalls]

Miami artist Maria Alquilar works on her art piece outside the front entrance to the Livermore library on Tuesday, August 9, 2005. She arrived in Livermore on Sunday to correct the $40,000 ceramic mural she created, replacing tiles containing misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures. Chronicle photo by Michael Maloney

[razorback-bert]

Even money, she screws up again.

[FreedomCalls]

Miami artist Maria Alquilar takes a break while working on her art piece. Chronicle photo by Michael Maloney

[Enchante]

Ahh, the luxury of being paid "$6,000 plus travel expenses" to correct your own incompetent work that should have been done right the first time.... must be government work!

[SlowBoat407]

Crap spelled correctly is still crap. The mural is a piece of junk that is not worth anywhere near what Livermore spent on it.

[IronJack]

There's a face that just begs to have a pie mashed into it.

[BradyLS]

I understand Barbara Streisand was her copy editor...

[BradyLS]

...or did I spell "Barbra" wrong???

[LibWhacker]

...educational mural...

By an unejikated ijit.

Absolutely ridiculous. Has Livermore no shame? Having an unejikated ijit do an educational mural is like having Saddam Hussein do a human rights mural.

Livermore should've had it ripped up.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

No, you spelled "Barbara" correctly. "Barbra" spells "Barbara" incorrectly.

[Brett66]

What a looser.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

What a total lack of intellectual integrity! I check my spelling and grammar when I send an email to my brother.
This moron couldn't be bothered?

[M-cubed]

Livermore officials selected Alquilar in 2000 to create a mosaic at the entrance to Livermore’s new library, <<<<
"Officials???" Yup!..and paid her 40K to boot...AND NOW THE'RE QUESTIONING THE SPELLING?....I luv dezine bye comitkey!

[stainlessbanner]

She needs some bigger sunglasses, those don't completely cover her head.

[mmercier]

Public buildings spare no expense when creating these "artistic" monstrosities lately.

It is better than these politically connected "artists" having to rely on actual sales of their "work".

She is an appropriately nasty person too, so I understand how she got the contract.

[FreedomCalls]

Earlier story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240116/posts

[Ole Okie]

Barbra" spells "Barbara" incorrectly.

I thought "Barbra" was a push-up bra worn in bars to entice males.

I also thought that Streisand was "Babawawa". Or maybe that's Babawawawawa Walters I'm thinking of.

[Bob Mc]

"Public buildings spare no expense when creating these "artistic" monstrosities lately."

I believe this is one of the items in the communist manifesto: Make art obscure and meaningless, deter people from idolizing things other than the state.

[Calvin Locke]

Library patrons were of varied opinions about whether a name by any other spelling smelled as sweet.

Deliberately avoiding opinions of the mural in general, or does the paper think they already "covered"
the brouhaha when it was first unveiled?