All public art is bad public art. Under the current regime, one per cent of an infrastructure project’s budget must be diverted to an art fund, which then situates public art in places that often make no sense, like remote highway interchanges. The committee that commissions the art is dominated by people who have backgrounds in fine art and civic affairs. Farkas questions just how beholden the city to these agreements as it pertains to public art — and First Nations public art, in particular. The one really easy way to get the public back on board with public art is to stop hiring foreigners to reproduce the latest faddish New York art-school crap.

Source: National Post November 16, 2017 22:55 UTC