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Article: CITY OFFICIALS EYE PLAN FOR PUBLIC ART PRIVATE DEVELOPERS WOULD SET ASIDE FUNDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2005
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Boston likes to call itself the Athens of America, with its world-
renowned symphony and ballet, libraries, and intellectual might. But
some officials in a city that has long claimed itself a cultural
hotbed worry that Boston has fallen far behind other cities in its
promotion of public art.
Saying that dozens of other cities have set aside large funds for
public art while Boston does little, City Councilor Michael Ross said
he will propose today that the city require private developers to put
1 percent of their construction costs into a fund to finance public
art around the city.
"We do a good job with memorials and statues and are very