$500,000 taxpayer dollars to make a graven image of a murderous pagan god.
And it's ugly, too.
Defeat for culture...
What a lie.
What they are afraid of, is that developers will get to keep their money, and the artists won’t be gifted with it instead.
Public Art, especially in affordable housing projects provides a venue for taggers to practice and perfect their own public art.
If it ads value then the market would demand it.
Those places that have such ordinances are usually festooned with very mediocre art, but a number of artists who don’t need to work very hard.
>>Artists in Oakland, meanwhile, are fearful that a victory for the firms will be a defeat for culture in a city which has seen an influx of artists in recent years, and damage its status.
If you need the government to force people (ultimately at gunpoint) to use your art, then your art is crap.
$500,000 taxpayer dollars to make a graven image of a murderous pagan god.
And it's ugly, too.
Artists who use canvas to display their art pay for it out of their own pockets.
“Public art” should just be abolished
Oakland will have a Kim Jong-Un statue any day now
Don’t they just pass the costs on to the customer? Any fool that wants to build in these liberal fiefdoms deserves to pay through the nose.
Patrons of this creepy "art" typically justify the edginess or downright offensiveness of the pieces by saying that the purpose is to make people think, even if it makes them uncomfortable.
Of course, it's typically the lefty stuff that we are supposed to "think" about.
Johanna Poethig in Public Space
Imagine a bright-blue-eyed four-month-old baby girl traveling with missionaries to the Philippines. Picture her growing up and attending an alternative school in Manila filled with many friends who encourage her to engage in the vibrant art community. In her teenage years, she returns to the United States to learn as much about muralism as possible in Chicago, later venturing to the West Coast and settling in the Bay Area.....
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Maybe those who believe ‘public art’ is valuable should start a fund. Then all those who believe as they do can contribute and make it happen without compelling people who do not to foot the bill.
Art that someone wants to pay for tends to be superior to art which they are forced to pay for .
“Artists in Oakland, meanwhile, are fearful that a victory for the firms will be a defeat for culture in a city ...”
I doubt the culture of Oakland has anything to do with art unless one considers third world mob rule “art”.
I was in San Francisco last week. While walking the streets, I could only come up with one descriptive word-squalor. Obama’s third world hell hole transition will start in the cities and overwhelm the country. Besides sleeping, squatting and throwing trash wherever they please, America’s ‘entitlement class’ also demands the right to urinate and defecate in public. 19th century Calcutta also comes to mind.