Deadly art

From the BBC:

Two people have been killed and 13 injured after a giant, inflatable sculpture blew free from its moorings.

Many were inside the artwork, which consists of connected rooms, when it lifted 30ft into the air at Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

The Dreamspace sculpture is thought to have drifted for about 40m.

I wonder if this is a case where engineers were not consulted about design safety. It's happened before in the art world -- consider the Louvre and Veronese's Marriage at Cana -- though it certainly doesn't take an artist to get in over one's head.

Posted by David on July 23, 2006 8:52 PM