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Bunnies and Rabbits and Hares: Passivity in #PublicArt

May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Playboy Bunnies.

    For some reason, giant rabbits have entered the public art universe in the last six years.  Koons, Hofman, Gelitin, Argent and others have installed silver, yellow, pink and red sculptures where 50 feet is the minimum.  They float in the sky or lay uncomfortably in the stone plaza or grassy mountain top.  Hofman’s “Stor Gul Kanin” lived once in Sweden. Koon’s “Rabbit” appears and reappears in festivals or parades.  Gelitin’s “Hase” decomposes in the Italian alps.  Argent’s faceted “Leap” … [Read more...]

05/20/13 6:25 PM | filed under: main |

Copy Clouds

May 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cloud Ring

If you want to annoy artists and public art managers, then just show comparable works in the world that suggest the new artwork is not very original.  But like architecture, automotive design and a million other elements on our universe, is it realistic to be “unique” in the world.  Or perhaps unique has become more like a “unique face”  - not really very unique, but has a little something that appears special as this moment.  A moment when you have forgotten the other similar ones or have not met the similar people. Is … [Read more...]

05/17/13 12:37 PM | filed under: Uncategorized |

Modjeh Baratloo: A Honor to Have Known Her

April 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
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Modjeh Baratloo passed away this week. How do you explain the methods by which someone keeps you alive? With a laugh full of affection while shaking her head at your foolishness. With a fierce intensity for any activity she committed herself to. With a demand that you and everyone else think harder and stop being slightly lazy. With her joy in making any meal special with one or many friends. With her trust in you when she called to say: who do you know that can really help? Strangely, I never knew what she was actually doing for … [Read more...]

04/27/13 9:53 AM | filed under: main, Uncategorized |

Seattle’s #Homeless Remembrance Project. Unique Memorial.

April 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
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After 13 years of standing in the cold, wet rain 400 times to honor the passing of one of Seattle's  homeless people, Women in Black and WHEEL (Women’s Housing and Equality Enhancement League) dedicated a permanent memorial to remember the homeless people who lived and died in Seattle.  Artists Clark Wiegman, Karen Kiest and Kim Lokan created the "Tree of Life" sculpture with missing leaves.  Bronze leaves with the names of the deceased Seattle citizens have been "scattered in the wind" to various places in the city. Victor … [Read more...]

04/25/13 1:40 PM | filed under: main |

#PublicArt, #Sculpture & #Murals in Manhattan at the end of April, 2013.

April 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
JR Inside Out

A Quick Survey.  Comments Please. Central Park........ Thomas Schütte, United Enemies, Mar 5, 2013 – Aug 25, 2013. Public Art Fund. The Bowery (Lower East Side, Manhattan)........ Michael Craig-Martin, Youth AFTER HOURS 2: MURALS ON THE BOWERY PROJECT by Art Production Fund. 14 Artists. April 25 - September 29, 2013   Derrick Adams, Ricci Albenda, Ellen Berkenblit, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Michael Craig-Martin, Sylvie Fleury, Alex Israel, Kerry James Marshall, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens, Adam Pendleton, Dana Schutz, and … [Read more...]

04/24/13 9:36 AM | filed under: main, Uncategorized |

Kaldor Projects’ #13Rooms and Jew in a Box: Staring at Humans

April 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
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We love to have the permission to stare at and to examine every detail of a human body.    Detailed observation of humans is everywhere from internet porn (#1 international audience), television crime autopsy (#1 American TV shows) to human sculptures (#1 art for tourists in major public spaces worldwide).   We just need a stage, screen or small  box to establish permission. In 11, 12 & 13 Rooms, curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach use the classic cube.    In a warehouse in Sidney, Australia, the Kaldor Public Art … [Read more...]

04/22/13 11:42 AM | filed under: main, Uncategorized |

Ugo Rondinone

April 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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The Public Art Fund returns to Rockefeller Center after a break of five years since Chris Burden's "What my Dad Gave Me".  Ugo Rodinone's stone sculptures should be acknowledged as "real art" by the public.    Installation photos on the Public Art Fund Facebook page. HUMAN NATURE opens on April 23, 2013 and runs until June 7. Since 1998, Public Art Fund and Tishman Speyer have collaborated to present works of art in Rockefeller Center Plaza.  Some works include: Jeff Koons, topiary "Puppy" in 2000 Louise Bourgeois, three massive … [Read more...]

04/17/13 12:52 PM | filed under: main |

Pinterest

April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Many additional images with source links at Pinterest.com/AestheticGround … [Read more...]

04/9/13 10:46 AM | filed under: about |

September 2008

September 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment

Conflux Festival in New York City, Sept 11-14  La Machine in Liverpool, UK.  Street Art Exhibition at Bronx Museum of the Arts … [Read more...]

09/7/08 3:07 PM | filed under: linkable |

How to Think about Public Art

September 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment

How to think about public art?  Do you just keep doing the same thing?  Big art?  Architectural intimacy?  Site-specific narrative?  Locally responsive?   Internationally, public art has been institutionalized as the founder's dreamed in the 1960 and 1970s.  Big - intimate - narrative - responsive.  Most importantly, appreciated by a small, but growing group, and accepted by most.    Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" would NEVER be removed today.    What was not anticipated was 1.) … [Read more...]

09/7/08 2:55 PM | filed under: main |
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