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Originally Posted by Tobyoby
No, Socguy was right, You missed the point. The point being that the city spends billions on useful but mundane items such as road repair and pipes, etc... yet, a couple hundred thousand for art becomes a huge deal. Art is just as useful as roads and pipes, but in a different way and it comes at a minute fraction of the cost.
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Execution is more the issue than the strategy. Sure the quality of art is subjective, but the City has made some unbelievably stupid decisions that diminish its credibility. No art would look good in the location of the blue hoop. An even bigger concern is whether placement would distract drivers. The Bowfort Towers are almost as bad. Supposedly a committee approved these. Seems like they were checking boxes on the path to #progressive righteousness. Was anyone fired over either bad decision?
I lived in Edmonton during similar debates in the early 90s. Progressive cities supposedly invest in public art so bad decisions be damned, check off that box. Some of boondoggles of the era included expensive European tiles along a freeway that cracked during temperature swings (who would have thought that might be an issue?) and a pedway sculpture that was too big to fit in the planned space.
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