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[Alyster]

[memoryproblems]

When it has a clear benefit to the public, I think there should be some funding. Say pay people to paint murals on the sides of buildings to beautify the place, to create sculptures to liven the place up and so on.

 

Otherwise, I don't see any reason why they should promote art just for the sake of promoting art. I think if there was less money in art, the lesser artists would move on elsewhere and the better ones would be able to be self-sufficient.

 

Win-Win.

[Haflinger]

I'm a believer in government funding stuff that works when it's government funded.

 

I live in Canada. Here we have quite a lot of government-funded art. It's generally crap.

 

Now if the government was only good at finding decent art, then I'd be for it. But they don't seem to have the knack.

 

Then again, going by the stuff hanging on bank managers' walls, we probably need to get the banks out of funding the arts too. B)

[Alyster]

I'm a believer in government funding stuff that works when it's government funded.

 

I live in Canada. Here we have quite a lot of government-funded art. It's generally crap.

 

Now if the government was only good at finding decent art, then I'd be for it. But they don't seem to have the knack.

 

In my eyes government's job is to keep the mediocre artists and those who haven't made it yet alive. 

 

Businessmen discover and fund the real good art.

 

Though it's not always like that. But I like arts and I think the world would be a lesser place with out them. If we'd leave financing only to the capitalists, we'd soon also leave all of the art only to them.  

[Haflinger]

Yeah I have to admit I don't have a clear answer here, as can be seen by my remark about bank managers' walls. However most of the Canadian music I listen to was funded by MuchMusic, back when they did that. They were actually pretty good at finding talented artists and giving them money.

 

Sadly they don't do it anymore, and now Canadian music is ... getting kinda sucky.

[Redezra]

Support the arts! It's culture <nods>