I agree that throwing garbage together is not art. Pulling out the "public funding" argument IS the talking point of many years ago. Foundation money is NOT public money.
Remember Maplethorpe? That argument is all about repression of viewpoints that are not "mainstream".
How do we know that the council was not more specific? Really... it's the council. They weren't interested in specific. When you think of art in this town, who's name is published more in the paper than any other? Tyree. And he probably reccommended the others. What's funny is that there's 2 schools downtown , Wayne and CCS, that have considerable talent. Did they even approach them for ideas? Have a design contest? Judged by the people or by a coherent jury? Not a chance.
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