Cincinnati's Cultural Revolution?

This story in The Enquirer got me really excited about the future of Cincinnati; Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell says;

Details are being ironed out, but the basic idea is that any building project that gets an assist from the city would commit 1 to 2 percent of the cost to public art.

The story makes a small case for tourism, but I think it needs to be done for the people already here. Cincinnati is slowly doing everything right with the developments over the last few years. Now they need to start working on the intangible “cool” things to attract and keep people here. Cleveland, a place I’ve spent much time, has a program like this and it produced an incredible work of art in front of the Carl B. Stokes federal Court house in Cleveland. Love it or hate it, the Cleveland Venus wouldn’t exist without this program. And of course the controversial Free Stamp sculpture, which does what art should, engage the imagination and encourage discussion.




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