{"id":2182,"date":"2009-12-18T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2009-12-18T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:52:04","slug":"surprising-court-decision-doesnt-favour-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/surprising-court-decision-doesnt-favour-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising court decision doesn&#8217;t favour the artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read the brief outline of the case, I was more than a little surprised that the court (correctly, in my opinion) decided that the &#8220;art&#8221; in question was just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2009\/dec\/18\/student-smash-window-art-edinburgh?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">glorified vandalism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Glass act: student fined for smashing gallery window and calling it art<\/strong><br \/><em>Gallery fails to see funny side after student puts metal pole through window as part of an art project<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does breaking a window count as art? Yes, murmured the 50 or so artniks who recently crowded into a former Edinburgh ambulance garage to view a film of sculptor Kevin Harman doing just that. No, insisted Kate Gray, director of the Collective Gallery in Cockburn Street, whose window it was.<\/p>\n<p>The courts are on Gray&#8217;s side. Yesterday Harman, a prize-winning graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, was fined \u00a3200 for breaching the peace on 23 November, when he smashed a metal scaffolding pole through one of the gallery&#8217;s windows. Fiscal depute Malcolm Stewart described the affair as &#8220;a rather bizarre incident&#8221; which had left Collective staff &#8220;upset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually <em>quite<\/em> surprised that the court decided this case properly . . . it has seemed for quite some time that an &#8220;artist&#8221; could declare just about anything to be &#8220;art&#8221; and get away with it. I&#8217;m not against all art, but if in the performance of your artistic work you happen to break a law, I think the police and the courts should not mitigate your treatment just because you&#8217;re an &#8220;artist&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read the brief outline of the case, I was more than a little surprised that the court (correctly, in my opinion) decided that the &#8220;art&#8221; in question was just glorified vandalism: Glass act: student fined for smashing gallery window and calling it artGallery fails to see funny side after student puts metal pole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[102,343],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","tag-art","tag-crimeandpunishment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-zc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}