Maintenance folks at the University of Houston had a job to clean out the art annex building. But it seems they did their job a little too well.
Texas sculptor James Surls learned earlier that week in 1979 that his half-ton sculpture,"Two-Headed Horse," was carted off to the dump and destroyed.
"In all fairness to them, they get issued orders and they do whatever they say. I guess they don't question it," said Surls, who was an assistant professor of art at UH at the time."They just took their orders so literally there was no room for any kind of leeway." Though the"Two-Headed Horse" is gone, Houstonians can see Surls' existing work at Market Square, Rice University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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