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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
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WHAT IS ART?
Pro skateboarder helping out recovering addicts SEE PAGE 12
Discarded masks causing litter issues SEE PAGE 5
Beatriz Milhazes’ mural, Gamboa Seasons in La Jolla, at 1111 Prospect St., is the reproduction of Gamboa Seasons, a series of four acrylic on canvas paintings: Summer Love, Autumn Love, Winter Love, and Spring Love (2010), first shown at the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland in 2011. PHOTO BY DON BALCH
La Jolla committee discusses guidelines for murals By DAVE SCHWAB
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The Cat Lounge reaches 1,000 adoptions SEE PAGE 12
udging the content of public murals is a slippery slope, and those murals promoting commercial interests should not be allowed. That was the general consensus of La Jolla Planned District Ordinance Committee that met virtually in August.
The 11-member advisory group is comprised of appointed representatives from La Jolla Community Planning Association, La Jolla Town Council, La Jolla Village Merchants Association, and Bird Rock Community Council. The PDO committee continued to grapple with the vexing issue of what is appropriate – and not
– regarding the placement of public murals within the La Jolla Planned District Ordinance. Previously, the committee formed a subcommittee to explore guidelines governing future mural placement. “If we start going into the content of [murals], we’re going to end up being art critics and that’s not our job,” contended board member
Gail Forbes. “We’re not art critics.” Asked Suzanne Baracchini of Windansea: “If the art was something of an explicit sensual nature, would you allow it? There’s a whole cross-section of the public you don’t want to offend. In La Jolla, you don’t want to gain a reputation for being political or commercial.”