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Public art isn't always popular with the public, especially when tax dollars are involved. Below are some works of local public art that have generated controversy or criticism. Here's your chance to say which one is the worst. Rank them from 1 to 7, with 1 being the worst, using the pull-down menus.

"Silver Linings" installed in 1996 in the middle of Tucson International Airport's west terminal concourse, the aluminum "Silver Linings" serves artistic and practical purposes: it separates arriving and departing passengers and gives an impression of moving through the clouds over the Tucson Mountains. Departing passengers appear to move up through the clouds painted on aluminum, arriving passengers appear to move down towards the ground. Artists were Paul Edwards, Vytas Sakalas and Chris Tanz.

 
"Curving Arcades" located at the east entrance to the UA campus between East Third Street and East University Boulevard on North Campbell Avenue. It's just too abstract, its critics have said since it was installed in 1981 ­ it looks more like an industrial-art rendering of clothespins or tweezers rather than an aesthetic expression. Installed in 1981; created by Washington, D.C.-based public artist Athena Tacha.
 
An art project that was partially completed along North Mountain Avenue by artist Paul Edwards, until the neighborhood rebelled. The pieces were removed in September 2003 and will eventually be installed in Silverlake Park on Tucson's South Side. Some say the sculpture looks alarmingly like a real broken water pipe; other don't like the artist's use of desert tones as the color of water, instead of blue or crystal
 
"Diamondback Bridge" A pedestrian and bicycle bridge over East Broadway just west of Eucid Avenue, designed by Simon Donovan. Some think it's just too fanciful and that it doesn't really connect anything — it's a bridge to nowhere.
 
The colorful wall which stands at North First Avenue and East Orange Grove Road is said to be too brightly colored, too gaudy and distracting. The wall was designed by artist Paul Edwards.
 
"Sonora" A two-story red metal sculpture by Ohio artist David Black installed in front of the Tucson-Pima Public Library in 1991. Critics say it looks like a disjointed series of zigzags, fins and other themes not necessarily reminiscent of Tucson or anything else related to the Southwest.
 
"Rammed Earth Monoliths" On West Congress Street just west of Interstate 10 at the frontage road. Created by Joy Fox, Andrew Rush, Judy Stewart, Chuck Sternberg and Bob Vint, and completed in December 2001. Some critics say the shapes are uninspiring, and uninspired.
 

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