I used to scoff at the "one percent for art" rule, which requires most government building projects to spend 1% of their construction budget on art. I'm still not thrilled with it, particularly when I look at some of the "art" that has been purchased with the allocation, but I've been less dogmatically opposed to the program since it occurred to me that the same basic idea funded Michelangelo's painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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