Minneapolis Mayor wants backup from art community
Submitted by Steve on October 2, 2011
From Eric Roper at the Star-Tribune:
When it comes to public art, Mayor R.T. Rybak is tired of being a lone wolf. Rybak told an art-centric crowd earlier this month that “I got my head kicked in” for installing 10 water fountains designed by artists—at $50,000 a piece. He said they should have come to his defense.
“I really want to push the envelope on a lot more of those things,” Rybak said during a panel discussion at the Minneapolis Central Library earlier this month. “But that is not up to me to do alone. And you people... who've done phenomenal things, you were nowhere in that discussion.”