All-Star Arch Remains on Corner, Paint Chipping Off
The 2009 MLB All-Star game was a great event, generating positive reviews for St. Louis and pumping money into our local economy. But it’s been two and a half years since the game happened. We are happily in the 2011 World Series now so it’s times to move on.
At Tucker & Washington an Arch used to promote the 2009 All-Star game remains. These were supposed to be sold at auction to raise money. This arch has remained on the corner and it’s starting to show it’s age.
I think it’s time to remove this arch from the public sidewalk.
– Steve Patterson
Those things were ugly as sin when they were presented and continue to be so today.
When it was first announced the series was commissioning a series of Arch-themed pieces in advance of the All-Star game, I thought it was going to be something similar to Chicago’s cow-art project, and that our local artists would have a chance to creat different works using the Arch as their base. I thought there’d be different artistic designs, colors, patterns, contortions, alighnments, meanings, etc., and the pieces presented would be unique representations you’d be proud to have scattered across the city then and for years to come.
Instead we got several shameless plugs for MLB and Fox…
Those things were ugly as sin when they were presented and continue to be so today.
When it was first announced the series was commissioning a series of Arch-themed pieces in advance of the All-Star game, I thought it was going to be something similar to Chicago’s cow-art project, and that our local artists would have a chance to creat different works using the Arch as their base. I thought there’d be different artistic designs, colors, patterns, contortions, alighnments, meanings, etc., and the pieces presented would be unique representations you’d be proud to have scattered across the city then and for years to come.
Instead we got several shameless plugs for MLB and Fox…
My girlfriend and I walk past that arch now & then and I always smile cause I think it’s great. For someone who likes to preserve history and art I see no reason why this couldn’t simply be maintained, and in 2050 we can all smile and remember when we had the All-Star game here in STL. I say keep the little lone Cardinals arch, and keep it maintained. Why not give it a plaque even.
My girlfriend and I walk past that arch now & then and I always smile cause I think it’s great. For someone who likes to preserve history and art I see no reason why this couldn’t simply be maintained, and in 2050 we can all smile and remember when we had the All-Star game here in STL. I say keep the little lone Cardinals arch, and keep it maintained. Why not give it a plaque even.
I agree with RedM. It is public art, it should be maintained. Give it a new coat of paint and preserve it. I see tourists taking pictures under it all the time.
I agree with RedM. It is public art, it should be maintained. Give it a new coat of paint and preserve it. I see tourists taking pictures under it all the time.
Public art usually fits better in it’s location and can take the weather for decades.
I agree with Chuck, and the same comments apply to all of our public art, whether it’s Twain or the public art Metro has invested in over the years. Like much in the public realm, it seems like it’s always easier to get politicians to show up for ribbon cuttings than to get them to spend money on ongoing maintenance . . . .
Public art usually fits better in it’s location and can take the weather for decades.
I agree with Chuck, and the same comments apply to all of our public art, whether it’s Twain or the public art Metro has invested in over the years. Like much in the public realm, it seems like it’s always easier to get politicians to show up for ribbon cuttings than to get them to spend money on ongoing maintenance . . . .