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View Poll Results: Should public money fund community art projects?
Yes, it should. I value them. 3 11.54%
No, it shouldn't. I don't see their value. 23 88.46%
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Old 26-11-2010, 10:49   #721
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Re: The value of public funded art

I might as well put this information on here, as it's been discussed on this thread often enough.

The Victorian Swimming Gala is being postponed due to the weather. Even though it looks fine today, we took the decision a few days ago that the frost (and possibly snow) would make it hazardous.

We will now be doing it in Spring some time, date to be confirmed.
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Old 26-11-2010, 11:14   #722
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I might as well put this information on here, as it's been discussed on this thread often enough.

The Victorian Swimming Gala is being postponed due to the weather. Even though it looks fine today, we took the decision a few days ago that the frost (and possibly snow) would make it hazardous.

We will now be doing it in Spring some time, date to be confirmed.
Ya save um breaking the ice before they jump in
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Old 26-11-2010, 11:58   #723
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Ya save um breaking the ice before they jump in
Any saving will probably be overtaken by inflation and the actual cost(which we don't yet know) will rise
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Old 26-11-2010, 17:01   #724
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Mot sure why that is even relative though.
Not sure why your bitching about my bitchy comment?
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Old 26-11-2010, 17:41   #725
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Your following me around like a lovestruck teenager.
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Old 26-11-2010, 17:50   #726
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Nothing like a bit of forward planning.

Was it.
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Old 26-11-2010, 21:23   #727
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Old 11-12-2010, 00:56   #728
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I might as well put this information on here, as it's been discussed on this thread often enough.

The Victorian Swimming Gala is being postponed due to the weather. Even though it looks fine today, we took the decision a few days ago that the frost (and possibly snow) would make it hazardous.

We will now be doing it in Spring some time, date to be confirmed.
So the financial costs won't now be announced until 'Spring sometime', so it won't spoil our judgement of this publicly funded art?

Something to look forward to.

Along with the sound of the first cuckoo.

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Old 11-12-2010, 09:53   #729
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So the financial costs won't now be announced until 'Spring sometime', so it won't spoil our judgement of this publicly funded art?

Something to look forward to.

Along with the sound of the first cuckoo.

Sorry to spoil the suprise.

For anyone who doesn't want to know the cost of the Victorian Swimming Gala, so as better to judge the event's artistic worth, look away now.

Two thousand five hundred pounds.

(The information was obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. Although this request wasn't made by me.)

£2,500.00

I presume 'about a quarter' of the funding came from tax payers' money here in Hyndburn, like it did for the other events?

Sorry to prejudge this 'community art' happening, but as to the artistic merit and it's worth to society, does it represent good value?

No!
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Sorry to spoil the surprise.

For anyone who doesn't want to know the cost of the Victorian Swimming Gala, so as better to judge the event's artistic worth, look away now.

Two thousand five hundred pounds.

(The information was obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. Although this request wasn't made by me.)

£2,500.00

I presume 'about a quarter' of the funding came from tax payers' money here in Hyndburn, like it did for the other events?



Sorry to prejudge this 'community art' happening, but as to the artistic merit and it's worth to society, does it represent good value?

No!
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Old 27-03-2012, 07:33   #731
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At last someone in authority in the 'art world' has had the courage to say that stuffed sheep, pickled sharks and unmade beds are not art.

Sell up now before it's too late, expert tells Damien Hirst fans - News - Art - The Independent
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Old 27-03-2012, 08:28   #732
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"Con Art"...exactly! The emperor's new clothes!
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Old 27-03-2012, 08:38   #733
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A bit of sense at last,
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Old 27-03-2012, 17:55   #734
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I couldn't give a flying fig, whether those with more money than sense want to invest their own money in so called works of art.

Good luck to the bed makers, and shark stuffers, who are milking the suckers dry.

I happen to disagree with the critic who predicts a fall in the value of conceptual art.

Once the financiers have decided the worth of an artist, historically values rarely fall.

Nothing at all to do with artistic merit, but art's nearly as sound an investment as property.
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Old 27-03-2012, 18:34   #735
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Is a flying fig 'art'?

I agree, let them spend their brass, it is theirs to do what they want with.

I do not like public money being spent on so called art, if someone wants to swim up a high street in victorian gear, aw bless, let them, they can even call that art just so long as it doesn't cost one penny of rate payers money.
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