The artwork is a rule the government types operate on around here. If they build a public building, a certain percentage of the cost has to be invested in really bad public art. It is a subsidy for lazy and untalented artist, and it makes leftist feel like they are doing something to improve the culture they are actually killing.
You should see the "art" in Mannheim, Germany, coming in from the A656 autobahn. It looks like someone dumped a bunch of big, rusted metal slabs out the back of a C-130 while flying above the median. But I have to admit, it gets across the broken-down, rusted industrial aspect of Mannheim.