Rich neighborhoods can also afford to commission artists to create work if they want it on display.
Public art is mostly imposed on communities that can’t defend themselves from it. Rarely do you see public art spoiling rich neighborhoods.
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I’ve almost never seen that - unless you count really old stuff. have you seen it?
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The quality of public art is inversely proportional to how approved it is by the authorities. The charging bull on wall street is pretty great, for example
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yes the kind of public art I mean is committee art
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oh my goodness
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this one is called "The Vessel" because ominous and eldritch is an aesthetic that goes very well with luxury condos and high-end retailpic.twitter.com/iu2w2BNbhp
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this^ additionally, public art is usually inflicted upon commercial areas rather than residential ones
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Rich folk designed their community. A private artist designed it. Only a rich person w/ narrow perspective would say this.
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I’m an extremely bad banana but my neighborhood had public art forced on it a year ago and I get mad every time I see it
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