Money well spent?
Re: Money well spent?
Agreed that the Vietnam Memorial is great art, and a tremendously moving experience. It was privately financed, btw, but sits on public grounds. It was chosen by a group of architects and sculptors unanimously picked her design for the project. And thus, this does nothing to rebut Jim's sensible point that publicly funded art should be mainstream if for no other reason than to avoid the bad choices of artists trying to be "cutting edge" and giving a black eye to the concept of publicly funded art of publicly funded anything. If you want to be out on the edge as an artist, find someone other than the taxpayers to fund your experiments.
Re: Money well spent?
Why the guard rail?oldr_n_wsr wrote:
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Re: Money well spent?
The memorial area on the one side is about 2-3feet higher than the walkway around it. Behind it, the ground is a little higher than the memorial area. The black "monolith" on the left of the pathway is supposed to represent a "lighthouse" and was added a few years after the memorial opened.Gob wrote:Why the guard rail?oldr_n_wsr wrote:
Flight 800 memorial