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Old 29-10-2010, 16:29   #206
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Re: The value of public funded art

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...and perhaps not exactly cutting edge, certainly as an 'art' form?

Once somethings been used to flog mobile phones on the telly, I think we can already label it a bit naff, in the context of an artistic movement.

...and just because some company in Manchester is hioping to charge some daft sap ten thousand quid to organise a flash mob, doesn't equate to the value of what this is costing us.

I believe you can pick up a working girl for ten quid in Clayton Street in Blackburn, yet footballers are having to pay £10,000.00 in Manchester, for pretty much the same thing, just dressed up a little differently.

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