Saw this over at BoingBoing, apparently Anish Kapoor has demanded that people not take pictures of his giant mirror-coated kidney bean that sits in Chicago’s new Millennium Park because he claims the sculpture is “Copyrighted.” What’s even worse is that the City is going along with it, policing the area and keeping people from photographing the publicly funded sculpture:
Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with public money. Woe betide any member of the public who tries to photograph this sculpture, though: it’s a copyrighted sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their tax-dollars bought.
URI: Boingboing: Chicago’s public sculpture can’t be photographed by the public..