Stanhope to speak at length on public art.

Nohope is a fraud. He embezzles our money on projects like the GDE art, arboretums, statues of his criminal mates – anything but lead this two-bob local council in providing services of value.

Have you ever noticed how people avoid him in the supermarket when he’s out and about?

erv said :

I’d be all for it if the art was tasteful. Yes, yes not everyone will like it, but Im yet to meet anyone who likes more than 1 piece at most. Besides, the cost of it is outrageous, like mentioned in a previous topic, spend that money keeping Canberra clean and maintained.

but it is tasteful – it simply depends on your definition of taste…

Skidbladnir said :

In contrast, nobody will ever consider looting Stanhope’s choices of art, because they’re shit.

That’s gold 🙂

OpenYourMind said :

I’m sure the biggest critics are the same kinds of people who complained when the … Mona Lisa was commissioned.

Small point, but the Mona Lisa was a private work of art, commission by nobility to celebrate his wealth, and kept in private hands for something like 350 years, until the French Revolution came through and the National Assembly declared the entire contents of La Louvre to be French public assets held in national trust.
People have only started fussing about it in the last 150 years.
IE: A government with a taste for the aesthetic raided private collections without offering compensation, by exercising its newfound expropriation powers because the regime previously in charge was no longer capable.

In contrast, nobody will ever consider looting Stanhope’s choices of art, because they’re shit.

OpenYourMind said :

I’m happy for part of my local rates and taxes to be spent on art. I particularly like the kinetic wind sculpture on Adelaide Ave.

The “Broken Clock”? I’m still waiting for the bloody thing to take off (and possibbly take soemone out) in a high breeze.

Speaking “at length”? How long does it take to say “it’s crap”?

I’d be all for it if the art was tasteful. Yes, yes not everyone will like it, but Im yet to meet anyone who likes more than 1 piece at most. Besides, the cost of it is outrageous, like mentioned in a previous topic, spend that money keeping Canberra clean and maintained.

OpenYourMind said :

I’m sure the biggest critics are the same kinds of people who complained when the Eiffel Tower was built or Mona Lisa was commissioned.

Bull. I wasn’t alive back then. And you’ll find quite a lot of what we consider art from an historical perspective was privately funded. Different societal system, I know; so stop comparing apples with oranges, please.

The bottom line is that public art should be appreciated somewhere along the line, and this can take many forms, yet when public servants (and I am one myself) are in charge of budgets, often the pursuit of art becomes more of a project management issue rather than one of art.

“$20,000 left in the kitty and we need to spend it by the end of the financial year, otherwise next year’s budget will be cut by that amount? Yeah, give the contract to that bloke.”

OpenYourMind said :

Jon, mate. I love our public art. Keep up the good work!
You will always get people that don’t find every piece of work to their taste.

In my world travels, the cities that really stand out as culturally rich have a wealth of sculptures (both modern and traditional).

I’m happy for part of my local rates and taxes to be spent on art. I particularly like the kinetic wind sculpture on Adelaide Ave.

I’m sure the biggest critics are the same kinds of people who complained when the Eiffel Tower was built or Mona Lisa was commissioned.

How exactly did people complain back in the days when the Mona Lisa was ‘commissioned’?

I would have hoped the CEO of a Government would be too busy for this type of thing. Get to work on something of consequence Jon…..I know you read this

Jon, mate. I love our public art. Keep up the good work!
You will always get people that don’t find every piece of work to their taste.

In my world travels, the cities that really stand out as culturally rich have a wealth of sculptures (both modern and traditional).

I’m happy for part of my local rates and taxes to be spent on art. I particularly like the kinetic wind sculpture on Adelaide Ave.

I’m sure the biggest critics are the same kinds of people who complained when the Eiffel Tower was built or Mona Lisa was commissioned.