“Amtrak has decided it’s going to become a veritable Louvre. Amtrak’s gameplan involves deftly blending individual donations and foundation grants with money from the National Endowment for the Arts and in-kind contributions of its own (tax-funded, for-profit) services. Funding comes from a variety of sources, several of them public. Not included in the $300,000 price tag are the salaries of the Amtrak engineers who ‘are overseeing the action at every site during the artwork’s installation.’ Further: ‘For the next six months, the Mural Arts Program and the City of Philadelphia’s Graffiti Abatement Team have pledged to maintain ‘psychylustro’ and protect it from defacement.'”
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