There’s a controversy going on in Vancouver over an art exhibit made from scavenged/stolen street signs. To me this sounds like a lot of fuss over not particularly good art, although perhaps I shouldn’t judge without seeing the “strong holistic spectacle” (no longer quite so holistic).
Not Signs but Signifiers
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Dan Sumption co-founded FAD with Mark Westall in 2001. He now lives in the North of England, where he writes and draws trees.
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