and on
Public Art-
Thing is, lib's like supe see fund for the arts (1% or whatever) as an acceptable diversion to
"funding of artsy liberals."
Every building that goes up has a certain "art" component to it. Beyond the amount of asthetically pleasing elements that the architect puts into it, there is also the art of engineering. AS Moneyguy notes, we have rolling art.
Of course some people believe that if some structure is made of concrete and glass (by evil rich private architect, egr's and business men) that somehow a faux pas has been made. . .That w/o the inclusion of some starving "artist" giant lump of maccaroni-art sitting outside the stucture, we, as a society have simply failed in all that is equitable.