Define "public art".
Inserting photographs of my penis into the advert space at local bus stops is my favorite form of public art, but for this thread... I was hoping... that I'd discover works of art like those anarchir just described.
The one I posted struck me as a kinda big deal since someone had the balls to deface a war monument (if only temporarily, not sure what sort of paint was used) and replace the mighty warrior figures with cheesy pop culture icons. That's pretty cool, to me.
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In Charlotte there's a light rail line that has sad looking art along the tracks and at each station. Not sure what the total costs were for all that crap, but one of the artistes has a pretty good racket going on in various cities in the US..
"Take his cucumber phase, for instance. For a while there, Sayre, an artist from Raleigh, was stacking dozens of circular blocks of increasing or decreasing size on top of each other and selling them to various government agencies and the occasional private group for tens of thousands of dollars.
Most of these 10- to 20-foot cucumberesque sculptures bear a striking resemblance to each other in form, yet Sayre has a different spin for each one.
The legume-like stack of black concrete circles he created for Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta is supposed to represent "the mystery of night," Sayre says. Hundreds of miles away in St. Petersburg, Florida, a similar stack of circles by Sayre sits outside a fire station. Sayre claims that the sculpture, for which the St. Petersburg Public Art Commission paid $50,000, represents "the historical architectural element of a fire station hose tower." Outside a public building in Raleigh, a group of 24 skinnier cucumbers built from circles juts out of the ground. These, says Sayre, represent North Carolina's 24 largest cities. But again, it's basically the same piece over and over again, with a different intellectual explanation by the artist for what it means."
Sayre's "works" for the rail:
I've heard these "pieces" cost just under $150,000.
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