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...]
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...]
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