{"id":302,"date":"2025-03-05T22:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/when-public-art-goes-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:58:04","slug":"when-public-art-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/when-public-art-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"When Public Art Goes Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>When Public Art Goes Wrong &#8211; Konky Kountdowns<\/h1>\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/rtCPxgc-8tU\/0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rtCPxgc-8tU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rtCPxgc-8tU<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>### Summary<\/p>\n<p>Public art installations often cause controversy due to their abstract nature and expensive costs. Here are 10 public art installations that went wrong:<\/p>\n<h3>Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Traveling Light &#8211; Calgary, Canada: $471,000 taxpayer expense, 2.3 stars on Google reviews<\/li>\n<li>Morning Sun &#8211; Carmel, Indiana: $29,000 sculpture cost, compared to a COVID-19 virus or a hairy kiwi fruit<\/li>\n<li>Talis Dome in Alberta, Canada: Stainless steel spheres structure, mocked and vandalized multiple times<\/li>\n<li>Tilted Ark in New York City: $175,000 (~$600,000 today) cost, faced criticism for cost and inconvenience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Expensive sculptures often face backlash from the public<\/li>\n<li>Talis Dome in Alberta, Canada, has been vandalized multiple times<\/li>\n<li>Unnamed Sculpture was moved for $50,000 due to controversy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h1>When Public Art Goes Wrong &#8211; Konky Kountdowns<\/h1>\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/rtCPxgc-8tU\/0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rtCPxgc-8tU<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>### Summary<\/p>\n<p>Public art installations often cause controversy due to their abstract nature and expensive costs. Here are 10 public art installations that went wrong:<\/p>\n<h3>Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Traveling Light &#8211; Calgary, Canada: $471,000 taxpayer expense, 2.3 stars on Google reviews<\/li>\n<li>Morning Sun &#8211; Carmel, Indiana: $29,000 sculpture cost, compared to a COVID-19 virus or a hairy kiwi fruit<\/li>\n<li>Talis Dome in Alberta, Canada: Stainless steel spheres structure, mocked and vandalized multiple times<\/li>\n<li>Tilted Ark in New York City: $175,000 (~$600,000 today) cost, faced criticism for cost and inconvenience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Expensive sculptures often face backlash from the public<\/li>\n<li>Talis Dome in Alberta, Canada, has been vandalized multiple times<\/li>\n<li>Unnamed Sculpture was moved for $50,000 due to controversy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ytsum.avalonsoft.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}