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Do you wish the city you live in had more art (sculptures, statues, etc.), or do you think art is a waste of money?
Talk about it….
I believe it would be a waste of money.
Anything and everything is damaged and ruined by disrespectful people.
Any money that would be spent on art should go to cleaning up the trash, both litter and people.
The Concord “spirit polls” cured me for the desire of having ‘art’ in public. Give me trees and shrubs instead!
I’d rather see municipalities spending that kind of money on landscaping/median strip plantings, etc., than on “art”
Probably a waste of money. Not only the money to make and install it but there is also money needed for upkeep including graffitti removal
Yeah, we all want more Concord Spirit Poles. Nah!
Oh, I Love all the New Art around downtown Concord.
The painted utility boxes, the murals, and wish there was more Sculptures.
Wish we had more Boutique Shop downtown like Martinez & Benicia.
No thanks and a waste of taxpayer dollars. If someone want to donate something, then go for it!
waste of money in WC
If art includes road pavement repair I’m all for it.
An occasional sculpture is okay with me. Murals, on the other hand, I don’t like.
When a new federal builing is being planned, there’s a requirement that a certain percentage of the construction cost must go to public art on-site. I’ve been to a fair number of federal buildings in Washington and elsewhere around the country. The public artworks always struck me as very bland and uninteresting.
I don’t live in Martinez but the “Black Life’s Matter” in front of the courthouse seemed pretty “arty”. Maybe a touch up or repaint will get it back into shape….Poor George Floyd, so miss understood.
As long as it’s modern art. Just provide me a wall and will do some random paint splotches of pink and light blue paint and charge a bargain price of $10K.
Waste of big $$ … plant trees and landscaping instead…… more green
More garbage cans. We need the city to provide garbage cans. SICK of seeing garbage everywhere. Remember only Trashy people litter. See someone littering say something.
@FPN…..What you see is how the ‘Newcomers” live in their home country…..get used to it. It won’t matter how many garbage cans there are. Say something to them about it and you may just get your ass kicked.
Different art appeals to different people. To please the most people, the art has to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, and then it becomes boring and stupid and nobody likes it.
I like street art and am particularly impressed by Japanese manhole covers which, of course serve a useful purpose as well as an artistic one. See some examples at the following link:
https://web-japan.org/trends/11_fashion/fas202011_manhole-design.html
We do need more beautiful street art, but we need other things first: deal with the crime, filth, drugs, homelessness and general lack of a nice society first, then make some nice art for the people to enjoy.
Nope, no art. I think that we’ve proven that we can’t have nice things.
Having been in LA last several days, seeing what is supposed to be “art,” I’d rather trees/shrubs be placed there, so that the greenery breaks up what is just graffiti covered concrete and steel all around. Some of the “art” structures are simply ridiculous. To me, taxpayer money spent on art is a tremendous waste.
If you have ever been to the downtown area of Kirkland, WA, you have seen a very good example of public art. I’d love to see something like that in Concord.
How about putting back all the statues and monuments they tore down before having a conversation about putting up new stuff?