Clover Moore What a waste of public Money and what a cuckoo she is
There are homeless and needy that the money could be better spent on, there are roads and all the usual council stuff that would benifit from this money but NO Clover wants to waste MILLIONS and turn Sydney into Cloud Cuckoo Land
$9 MILLION for what
If you havent seen the pictures go to this link and have a look at the waste of money.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/clovers-vision-is-just-plain-eiffel-her-crazy-9m-vision-tu...
Clover’s vision is just plain Eiffel: her crazy $9m vision turns Sydney into a Cloud Cuckoo Land
ARTISTS will be paid millions under Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s weird public sculpture splurge, with birds on poles set to be dotted around the city and a giant plastic milk crate set near Central Station.
City of Sydney is splashing $9 million on three controversial artworks, with Australia’s talented array of home-grown and indigenous artists mostly snubbed during its short-list process. Of the 10 proposals that made the final shortlist, only one is Australian-born.
In a rare interview on 2GB yesterday, Ms Moore defended the artworks, comparing them to one of the world’s most recognisable structures — the 324m-tall Eiffel Tower.
“Great art around the world can really put a city on the map — you only have to think of the Eiffel Tower in Paris as an example and you only have to think of our own Opera House,” she said.
Japanese artist Junya Ishigami is being paid $2.5 million for his $3.5 million steel Cloud Arch sculpture, which will soar up to 75m into the air near Town Hall and form a gateway into George St.
British artist Tracey Emin, famous for an installation of a messy bed, will get $913,000 for her $2.1 million sculptures of bronze birds, which will be dotted about doorways, awnings and on poles in the CBD’s north.
And Egyptian-born, Sydney-based Hany Armanious is being paid $1.7 million for his $2.5 million fibreglass “milk crate’’ sculpture at Belmore Park.
The 13.7m dark blue milk crate, officially called Pavilion, will also be potentially environmentally unfriendly, with federal government documents showing that manufacturing fibreglass gives off a raft of pollutants.
ART? SORRY, IT'S JUST SPACE NOODLES, A BIG MILK CRATE AND SOME STUPID BRONZE BIRDS
Tim Blair Opinion
FOR most people, finding $9.3 million to fund a bunch of ridiculous artists and their absurd and indulgent creations would be something of a challenge.
Not for Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Sydney City Council who have access to that cash thanks to inner-city ratepayers, many of whom might be wondering now why they didn’t make a greater effort to vote Moore out.
Here’s a tougher challenge for Moore. In 2017, when Space Noodle, Big Milk Crate and Stupid Bronze Birds are installed, find someone who will say their visit to Sydney was inspired by this alleged art.
Full story here http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/clovers-vision-is-just-plain-eiffel-her-crazy-9m-vision-tu...
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