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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]Zoonart
(12,000 posts)I am chairman of the board of a local arts council in NYS. We vet the acceptance of all public sculptures that we place on loan at a very high level. If the sculpture is not secured to the base properly and will not withstand the rigors of public display... which always involves touching,
the sculpture would have been rejected until the sculptor had made changes.
I feel badly for this family. I think the agency that approved the installation should bear the cost of the work through THEIR insurance.
That's ow it would work for us, the case is that due diligence had not been done in installation.
I just rejected a sculpture on Thursday, because it was too close to the ground and looked to be fragile in that the armature was constructed with chicken wire, which is easily bent.
Just MHO plus a little experience.