brassed off

[barrywom]

Why are people getting so upset about a new piece of art in the V&A called Brass?

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The problem is 1998 Turner Prize nominee Cornelia Parker's work Breathless, which features a hanging orchestra of trumpets, horns and other brass instruments crushed in the Victorian-era mechanism of Tower Bridge. According to a report in the Guardian, Churchill Society secretary Judith O'Hanlon has protested to Prime Minister Tony about the destruction of so many good instruments, calling the sculpture 'an act of vandalism' .

That was from artnet.com. For more see
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/artnetnews/art
netnews11-20-01.asp?C=1

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Find out more about the British Galleries at the V&A at article 2354