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Neat article on the art being proposed for purchase during the DIA light rail \/ hotel expansion.
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'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.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Which is actually, in my opinion, kind of neat. \u00a0While 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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Denver hopes to buy $2 million sculpture by Ned Kahn for DIA<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neat article on the art being proposed for purchase during the DIA light rail \/ hotel expansion.\u00a0'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. 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