Cleveland Art Museum

The Cleve­land Art Muse­um is slat­ed for a $258M expan­sion in the com­ing year. I’m glad that they’ll have a chance to get more of their large col­lec­tion on dis­play, but I can’t help but think that $258M dol­lars [and the $8M chipped in by the state] could do a lot more good else­where. Yes, pri­vate donors can donate wher­ev­er the hell they want to, but what’ll it take to make ’em donate to the eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment of the region? Hope­ful­ly the $80M/yr esti­mate will hold true by attract­ing more vis­i­tors to the area, and I’m glad to see that they say admis­sion will still be free, but we’ll see what six years of con­struc­tion does to that tune. I wish they’d got­ten a Cleve­land archi­tect for the design instead of Rafael Viñoly. A friend of mine also took excep­tion to this:

Rafael Vi? [sic], the inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned archi­tect who designed the project and a native of Uruguay, called the applause that fol­lowed the vote Mon­day “an almost Latin lev­el of enthu­si­asm. These peo­ple are real­ly hap­py.”

Appar­ent­ly norteam­er­i­canos don’t get real­ly excit­ed about stuff? Wel­come to Cleve­land, bub.

Hey, I’m grouchy today; I’m com­plain­ing about good things. I’m also igno­rant and not rich so I’m sure by tomor­row I’ll have changed my mind some­what. I’m still glad it is hap­pen­ing. Shaddup Adam.

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