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Professor Thomas Starr weighs in on the increasing amount of public art around the world.

Keep public parks public. Erect memorials, statues and fountains. The belief among a restricted community that the public needs some form of “enlightenment” is an insufficient rationale. Please let me enjoy a park as a park and not a vehicle for promoting someone else’s version of “beauty.”

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