City of Vancouver paints over murals along Beatty Street
Murals commissioned by Steve Nash Foundation in 2007
Shane Bigham
Dec 22, 2009 17:27:58 PM
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130): Is it graffiti--or is it art? A wall of murals along Beatty Street in the downtown core--commissioned by the Steve Nash Foundation in 2007--are being painted over by a crew hired by the City of Vancouver.
David McLellan with the city defends the move. "Well I think part of it might be considered artwork, it was certainly seen to be a temporary installation. It never went through the benefit of our city mural program, as some other of these types of murals have done."
That block of Beatty Street, between Georgia and Dunsmuir, is on the perimeter of one of two Olympic 'live city' sites that will operate downtown during the Winter Games.