[Dan Evans]

Neal has more to say on the topic of civic-funded art. Go to the link.

[Cicero]

There are few things I hate more than scrap metal "art." This stuff is imposed on people all over the country. We once used to put statues in our parks of great heroes and statesmen. If nothing else, at least that's educational, human, and often beautiful. But, please, no scrap metal art.

[siunevada]

Must have art. Oink!

[marsapan]

One reason I moved out of Atlanta proper.

I bent over enough for Maynard Jackson and Bill Campbell.

[50sDad]

Dogs playing poker. Now THAT's Art!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Unfortunately, there are the same kinds of junk sitting around in yards in the Chapel Hill area, too. Fortunately, none of the local hemp-thumpers have hit upon the idea of getting the gov't to pay them for it yet.

[Corin Stormhands]

I'm gonna change my name to Coriander and get a gubmint grant to do Photoshop...

[bmwcyle]

ping

[Red Badger]

Art For Arts Sake
10CC
lyrics

Gimme your body
Gimme your mind
Open your heart
Pull down the blind
Gimme your love gimme it all
Gimme in the kitchen gimme in the hall
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Gimme the readys
Gimme the cash
Gimme a bullet
Gimme a smash
Gimme a silver gimme a gold
Make it a million for when I get old
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Money talks so listen to it
Money talks to me
Anyone can understand it
Money cant be beat oh no
When you get down, down to the root
Dont give a damn dont give a hoot
Still gotta keep makin the loot
Chauffeur driven
Gotta make her quick as you can
Give her lovin make you a man
Get her in the palm of your hand
Bread from heaven
Gimme a country
Where I can be free
Dont need the unions
Strangling me
Keep me in exile the rest of my days
Burn me in hell but as long as it pays
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake
Art for arts sake
Money for gods sake

[Quilla]

We've got a 26' x 13' metal hog in our town. I'm kinda partial to it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Not that San Francisco doesn't have it's share of questionable entries. ;)

[JeeperFreeper]

One of my college friend's father was a pipefitter and welder in Louisiana. One fine day, over some adult beverages, he and several of his pipefitter friends decided to take a bunch of scrap iron in his shop and do some "sculpting". After a few more adult beverages, they decided to "sculpt" a human figure. So they welded together a human figure of sorts. The "sculpture" sat there in the shop for a few months. Purely on a lark and after some more adult beverages, they called a art broker in a large metropolitan city in the northeast and persuaded this art broker to at least look at the polaroids of this sculpture. The art broker did and agreed to try to sell it. Within a few weeks, a bank paid $50,000 for the "sculpture" created by drunk coonasses. I personally saw this "sculpture", talked with some of these "artistes" and some of the money helped my friend get his master's in Ag Economics.

[M-cubed]

several years ago, at our local school, I observed a 4X8 sheet of plywood with 3-4 basketball sized blueberries on it (they appeared to be blueberries if u used your imagination)...upon inquiry of which primary grade class produced the "art"...( I was guessing 4th or 5th grade) I was informed it was made by a local artist and funded under a government "local culture" art grant to the tune of $750...
Ay-uh...We got blueberries the size of basketballs in Down-east Maine...but "local artists" with balls a hell of a lot bigger

[Niteranger68]

Gotta have the velvet Elvis baby!

[gonzo]

They've got this junk all over my old home-town, South Bend, IN. No pics, but the stuff is still junk! ............. FRegards