Percent for Art program

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New York City cultural initiative public art program

The Percent for Art program is a New York City initiative that allocates a portion of public construction budgets to commission and install artworks in public spaces.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Percent for Art program canonical	1
Percent for Art selection panel	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	New York City cultural initiative ⓘ public art program ⓘ
administeredBy	New York City Department of Cultural Affairs ⓘ
appliesTo	eligible city-funded construction projects ⓘ major reconstruction projects ⓘ new public buildings ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	New York City ⓘ
beneficiary	New York City residents ⓘ visitors to New York City ⓘ visual artists ⓘ
collaboratesWith	architects and design teams ⓘ city agencies undertaking construction projects ⓘ community boards ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
domain	infrastructure projects ⓘ parks and open spaces ⓘ public buildings ⓘ
field	cultural policy ⓘ public art ⓘ urban design ⓘ
focus	art integrated into public architecture ⓘ permanent visual art ⓘ
foundedBy	New York City government ⓘ
fundingMechanism	percentage of construction costs allocated to art ⓘ
fundingSource	capital construction budgets ⓘ
hasPart	artist selection process ⓘ artwork selection process ⓘ community review ⓘ design approval ⓘ fabrication and installation ⓘ
inception	1982 ⓘ
influenced	other municipal percent-for-art programs in the United States ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalBasis	New York City local law establishing percent-for-art requirement ⓘ
locatedIn	New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ surface form: New York State
operator	New York City Department of Cultural Affairs ⓘ
partOf	New York City Department of Cultural Affairs public art initiatives ⓘ
produces	artworks integrated into architecture ⓘ permanent public art installations ⓘ site-specific artworks ⓘ
purpose	commission public artworks for city-owned construction projects ⓘ integrate art into public spaces ⓘ support artists through public commissions ⓘ
regulates	percentage of construction budget dedicated to art ⓘ
selectionBody	Percent for Art program self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Percent for Art selection panel
typicalPercentage	up to one percent of eligible construction costs ⓘ
website	https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcla/publicart/percent-for-art.page ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Percent for Art program
Description of subject: The Percent for Art program is a New York City initiative that allocates a portion of public construction budgets to commission and install artworks in public spaces.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs → hasPart → Percent for Art program ⓘ

Percent for Art program → selectionBody → Percent for Art program self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Percent for Art selection panel