San Francisco Arts Commission votes to dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain

Charles A. Birnbaum, the president and chief executive of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an education and advocacy organisation, told The Art Newspaper in a statement: “For years the commission deliberately decided not to properly maintain the artwork and now they’ve voted to pardon and absolve themselves, and by extension the Recreation and Park Department, for their poor stewardship decisions.” He added: “Unfortunately, this is part of a broad and dangerous national trend.”