Aftermath

So you've probably seen the video by now where David and Dexter of Doublebutter drive around town and install their Roadrunner bench directly into the sidewalk in front of the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and the Denver Art Museum. This happened on Tuesday. So I drove by both spots yesterday, and the benches were gone. Well last night at their show at The 400, we heard where they ended up.

The MCA called up and said essentially: hey, thanks and all, but can you come pick this thing up? The DAM, however, was a bit more prickish. After asking when the bench was installed (guess nobody noticed), they are apparently launching an "investigation." (Psst, detective: I think there might be a clue in the video they posted online that was viewed by thousands of people here, here, and here.) And they are talking about charging to repair the sidewalk. I walked by the sidewalk at the MCA this morning, and I had to search to even find where the bench had been- the only remains are four 1/2" steel pins cutoff flush with the ground.

After blowing all that money on Libeskind's napkin sketch, then spending more money to fix the leaky roof, then finding that they didn't actually have the next Guggenheim Bilbao on their hands, then having Libeskind himself knock their building off in Toronto, and then having to layoff a bunch of employees because of disappointing attendance, you'd think they'd welcome a little gift, especially considering how bleak and cold that whole courtyard area is for all but 2 hours of the day when the sun manages to get in there. But I guess not.

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