2024-12-26T22:34:38-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/115606594/making-it-possible-for-the-human-spirit-to-soar Nam Henderson 2014-12-10T01:45:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6q/6qnq261kie88lz08.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Critics have argued that big arts-building investments are vanity projects, or that private donors should finance community arts organizations or scholarships instead.</p></em><br /><br /><p>James S. Russell digs into the building boom on college campuses, where museums and arts centers are opening and expanding. Mostly an elite phenomenon (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/arts/design/at-stanford-university-an-arts-district-grows.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stanford University is constructing a $235 million arts district</a>), few state/public schools are able to afford the costs.</p>