PUBLIC ART: Council approves shark mural, sculptures, rejects anti-hate mural
by Mark McDermott The once-rejected 3-D shark mural reappeared at the Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night, and this time found a home. The mural, by artist Eric Snyder and originally proposed for the fire station, will be painted on the Civic Plaza parking lot wall. It was a night of artistic appraisal at the City Council, who also considered 15 sculptures and gave tacit approval to at least four and largely took a pass on an anti-hate mural project proposed by an LA-based non-profit called TaskForce. But the shark, which was first presented to the council as part of a larger batch of proposed murals last September, was most definitively approved and placed. It is a large, realistic depiction of a great white shark, appearing to pour straight out of a wall. City staff gave council six possible locations, including both the main fire station and the new Fire Station #2. These locations were not popularly received. Resident Gary McAulay, president of the Manhattan Beach Historical Society, said that sharks “are not really a thing” in the community. “We’ve not had an incident with a shark in over 100 years and yet we’re doing a lunging shark leaping out at everybody, and we’re…
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