Neat article on the art being proposed for purchase during the DIA light rail / hotel expansion.
'The purchase is part of a massive art buy, totaling $5.2 million, mandated by rules that require 1 percent of the construction budgets of major city projects go toward art. The set-aside, common to major municipalities across the U.S., ensures public officials will consider aesthetics, and not just function, when completing new buildings.'
'The purchase is part of a massive art buy, totaling $5.2 million, mandated by rules that require 1 percent of the construction budgets of major city projects go toward art. The set-aside, common to major municipalities across the U.S., ensures public officials will consider aesthetics, and not just function, when completing new buildings.'
Which is actually, in my opinion, kind of neat. While the comments of the article are predictably fully of complaints about how such things are squandering and a waste, I've come over time to appreciate public art pieces in general (even when some of the particulars, like the Demon Horse of DIA, a/k/a "Blucifer," aren't to my liking). Visually relieving institutional architecture and ever-burgeoning advertisements is, to my mind, a good thing.
Denver hopes to buy $2 million sculpture by Ned Kahn for DIA
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