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Old 28-10-2010, 07:51   #124
Ken Moss
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Re: The value of public funded art

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
I do.

Though I'll never agree that tax payers' money should be spent commissioning it.

As stated way back, historically the Soviet systen was the largest ever supporter of state funded art, and it was all risibly bad.
It's all dumped in a field outside Budapest now, tended by the residents who try to scrape a bit of money out of visiting tourists.

It wasn't really very good at the time and no one still has any idea of what to do with it now, much like our own 'art' cluttering up the storerooms of galleries up and down the country.
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