‘Moon Dial’ Artist Fails in Final Plea to Save Work
In a final bid to keep his controversial “Moon Dial” sculpture on display in a park along Santa Monica Boulevard, artist George Herms asked the Beverly Hills City Council Tuesday night to reverse its order to remove the piece by Friday.
“When I was invited to bring this piece to Beverly Hills, I didn’t mean to bring in visual Muzak,” he told the council. “This was an opportunity to bring some challenging art to Beverly Hills.”
City officials died not budge, however, sticking to their earlier order giving Herms until Friday to remove the assemblage of five rusty buoys and two old window grates. Otherwise, workmen will take it down at 1 p.m. Monday, store it and bill him, they said.
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