{"id":9374,"date":"2013-10-09T06:59:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2013-10-09T06:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:59:22","slug":"one-may-ponder-the-greater-question-but-what-of-the-immediate-damage-to-the-art-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/10\/09\/one-may-ponder-the-greater-question-but-what-of-the-immediate-damage-to-the-art-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One may ponder the greater question, but what of the immediate damage to the art work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a Huffington Post piece entitled, \u201cMiley Cyrus Strikes Again, or the Destruction of the Pendulum<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Julia Friedman discusses the removal of Dale Eldred\u2019s 1973 sculpture from its site on the campus of Grand Valley State University after students appropriated it for a reenactment of Miley Cyrus\u2019s \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d video due to its close resemblance to a wrecking ball. Friedman notes that the artist Richard Serra (who knows something about this from personal experience) believes that the removal of a site-specific work is equivalent to its destruction. Thus Eldred\u2019s sculpture which is now in storage might be considered as \u201cdestroyed\u201d. This is a large question we might ponder– although in a year or so when no one will\u00a0be inclined\u00a0to recreate Cyrus\u2019 video, the sculpture\u00a0could be reinstalled in its site. But what of the immediate damage that might have been inflicted on the sculpture when students climbed aboard it and swung?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a Huffington Post piece entitled, \u201cMiley Cyrus Strikes Again, or the Destruction of the Pendulum,\u201d\u00a0Julia Friedman discusses the removal of Dale Eldred\u2019s 1973 sculpture from its site on the campus of Grand Valley State University after students appropriated it for a reenactment of Miley Cyrus\u2019s \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d video due to its close resemblance to … Continue reading “One may ponder the greater question, but what of the immediate damage to the art work?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":9509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}