🇨🇦 Canada · 2013 · 🎨 Public art
A huge blue circle with lights, on a road overpass. Name your price.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
C$471,000 one sculpture
Calgary paid for a zero. Then put it on display.
What actually happened
“Travelling Light” was installed in 2013 on the 96 Avenue N.E. extension near Deerfoot Trail. Its cost sparked a debate about the city’s percent-for-public-art policy, which set aside a share of capital project budgets for art.
Source: Global News ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.