The sculpture of Canadian jazz icon Oscar Peterson in downtown Ottawa has been vandalized – or perhaps painted over as a protest – and the National Arts Centre has surveillance footage that it’s handing over to police.
Meanwhile, the artist who made the sculpture is thrilled by the suggestion that the act may be one of racial protest.
“Whether it’s connected to the events in Ferguson (Missouri) I have no idea,” says Kitchener-area sculptor Ruth Abernethy, after learning that someone had painted tears onto the eyes of the sculpture that sits at the northeast corner of Elgin and Albert streets. “You …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
