[dijit]

To understand why there might be a desire to limit spending on art;

There was a recent case where city of Malmo was building a hospital; during the building of the hospital it was decided that a splice of the oldest tree in the world would be installed.

A very expensive life-support system was developed and an enormous amount of money paid for the splice. (not including the life support system, which was also an inordinate amount).

The tree didn't take, and needs to be replaced.

It's called "Spruce Time": https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/region-skane-har-lag...

[fc417fc802]

I think government art projects the western world over would fare better if they went through a reasonably local direct democracy type process. Instead we get unelected bureaucrats with absolutely bizarre tastes commissioning wildly expensive projects that the majority don't really appreciate. Even though that only describes a minority of cases I think it shouldn't be any surprise that it results in backlash and defunding.

[justin66]

I hope you don't think that is the odd one out.