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All aboard for new vision of subway stations Toronto Star, 8/28/2005 Glen Murray says The Toronto Community Foundation and the Toronto Transit Commission "get Toronto Mayor David Miller's message about building 'quality of place.' They understand the concept that a creative and culturally exciting place leads to new businesses, new jobs, attracts people and generates more ideas." The two organizations are looking to transform Toronto's utilitarian subway stations into spaces "with artifacts, design, music, colour, form and controversy."

City Officials Eye Plan for Public Art

Boston Globe, 8/31/2005

"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 [August 31] that the city require private developers to put 1 percent of their construction costs into a fund to finance public art around the city."

- contributed by ArtsJournal.com