THIS WEEKS LISTENER CURMUDGEON

Terry Stringer's Fountain now without a home along with Michio

Ihara's Wind Tree and Selwyn Muru's Gate

I have a shot at the wharf sheds and in the letters section the Art Bureaucrats at Auckland City have a pop at me.

They don't mention that have also removed Selwyn Muru's piece from Aotea Square and that it has joined the Auckland public art list of the permanently missing.

They do mention they have some "exciting" art initiatives in the pipeline - I was on that committee briefly and if the initiatives were the ones their arts manager was promoting then they will be as generally exciting as David Bain's jersey.