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Subject:	Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:52:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: > http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1266165.html > > (just ran across this from somewhere else) > > "since Nagorka generally goes to work in the aisles without prior permission > from store officials" > > Except for the above, note how the story doesn't really even mention the fact > that this "artist" (scare quotes deliberate) is basically vandalising, defacing, > stealing, disrupting operations and generally violating the rights of the Home > Depots she visits. > > As an HD stockholder I'm annoyed that store management at the stores she > violates isn't prosecuting her for the lost costs. > > Instead we get NPR puff pieces that glorify theft. I fail to see where she steals anything in the store. She just rearranges the stock into interesting, if ephemral, shapes. Where's she appearing next? I'll even buy something in the store. :-) -->Everyone's an Art Critic<--

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		Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
(...) Which someone has to clean up. That's a theft of labor (the cleanup) as well as stealing use of the materials (the pieces are not available for sale while she's "using" them) as well as hinderance of trade (while she's "sculpting", it's harder (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
(...) I've got a "What if?" She's stacking up these bricks without the store's OK to show off her artistic talents. One slips out of her hands as she's stacking and it is the last and highest placed. The brick then lands on her foot and breaks (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
(URL) ran across this from somewhere else) "since Nagorka generally goes to work in the aisles without prior permission from store officials" Except for the above, note how the story doesn't really even mention the fact that this "artist" (scare (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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