This mosaic would be better placed on a public school

Via Michelle Malkin is this story.

LIVERMORE, Calif. – It didn’t take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city’s new library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures.

"Our library director is very frustrated that she has this lovely new library and it has all these misspellings in front," said city councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich, one of three council members who voted Monday to authorize paying another $6,000, plus expenses, to fly the artist up from Miami to fix the errors.

Reached at her Miami studio Wednesday by The Associated Press, Maria Alquilar said she was willing to fix the brightly colored 16-foot-wide circular work, but offered no apologizes for the 11 misspellings among the 175 names.

"The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said. "They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work."

…"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake’s concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind the words register correctly."

I think the City should misspell her name on the $6000 dollar check. She can then go and find a bank that has Blake’s concept of enlightenment cash it.