The Halfway House

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ARTISTIC LICENSE: Florida artist Maria Alquilar initially refused to
return to Livermore, Calif., to fix spelling errors on a mural she
created at the city's new library. She admits the tile mural includes
11 spelling "oversights", including the names of historical figures
such as "Eistein", "Shakespere", "Van Gough" and "Michaelangelo".
Alquilar says the library should have caught them before she fixed
them
in with cement and was upset by the criticism of her spelling
prowess,
but changed her mind and agreed to fix the errors after the city
agreed
to pay her $6,000 plus travel expenses. She was paid $40,000 to
create
the piece. Alquilar says the work is meant to be "a testament to The
Enlightenment" and said the controversy over her spelling errors was
"idiocy". (Contra Costa Times, Miami Herald) ...But can she spell
that?