All the Strange Hours » Lascaux http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress Making and Thinking About Visual Art Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:06:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The damage done by incompetent bureaucracy at Lascaux http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/07/06/the-damage-done-by-incompetent-bureaucracy-at-lascaux/ http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/07/06/the-damage-done-by-incompetent-bureaucracy-at-lascaux/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:49:33 +0000 David http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/?p=509 Some of the best paintings in the world were made long before the beginning of recorded history. Not all prehistoric art is great, but some of it is as brilliant and evocative as any art from any era. The cave art at Lascaux is an particularly inspired example.

Over at his excellent Illustration Art blog, David Apatoff has a post—“Lunatics and Bureaucrats”—about various ways in which people damage art. One of his examples is the damage the French government has done to the images at Lascaux via an ill-planned air conditioning system and various attempts to fix it while covering their asses from any assessment of blame.

A person named Laurence Beasley runs an organization devoted to saving what can be saved at Lascaux. I would strongly recommend that you sign the petition, or even donate some cash, to support her cause.

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