ah i see... so it's a giant mexkin turd, i should have known
Posted on 08/02/2015 12:38:54 PM PDT by WilliamIII
A legal battle has broken out in Oakland, California, over whether construction companies should be forced to pay for public art in building projects.
An alliance of firms in Oakland is suing the city over laws that came into effect in February forcing them to spend between 0.5% and 1% of any project’s budget on public art.
There are more than 200 such public art ordinances across the United States and construction bosses will be closely monitoring the outcome of the lawsuit. 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.
The Building Industry Association of the Bay Area (BIA), a group that represents about 300 builders, contractors, suppliers and others within the Bay Area housing sector, claim the rules violate the first amendment and the fifth amendment protection against “uncompensated takings”.
“Public art adds value to our life,” visual and performance artist Johanna Poethig said, describing the lawsuit as a “backwards step”. She said: “Any sophisticated city has art and the amount spent is not a lot … and [art] makes people want to live there.”
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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.
“I don’t care if they want to put up these boring glass boxes, but why do they always deposit that little turd in the plaza when they leave?”
James Wines
I'd like to see developers hire their young children to make art on the walls.
I see sasquatch was in town.
I went and found the legislation. In the city ordinance we have:
"Public art advisory committee" means a professionally qualified citizen committee recommended by the Oakland arts commission and approved by City Council to oversee quality control of the public art program, its projects, and to recommend to the Cultural Arts Division (CAD) the sites, scope of project, artworks and artists for the public art projects funded through the Public Art Project Account.Only artists "approved" by the politically-connected committee will count. This is pure and simple cronyism.
Art that someone wants to pay for tends to be superior to art which they are forced to pay for .
Exactly
“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”.
Figures.
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.
ah i see... so it's a giant mexkin turd, i should have known
i heard that
100%!!! tell them only if the developer gets to chose the work
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