San Francisco votes to dismantle 50-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain by Quebec artist

Charles Birnbaum, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, said the Art Commission’s vote was the result of an opaque process that appeared slanted in favour of removal. 

The Vaillancourt Fountain has a “silhouette as iconic as the Golden Gate Bridge,” he said. “It’s a startling decision in terms of ignoring a city’s cultural and artistic patrimony.”