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Sign the LETTER TO Mayor Bill de Blasio – Don’t Rip Up the Times Square Plazas!

August 27, 2015 by Glenn Weiss

EVERYONE in PUBLIC ART and PUBLIC SPACE UNIVERSE........ Over the last couple of weeks the Mayor and Police Commissioner of NYC have proposed to return the new Times Square pedestrian space to the cars.  REASON:  Topless women with painted breasts and few aggressive cartoon characters.  Yes these "street entertainers" working for tips can be annoying for a second,  but it is Times Square !! … [Read more...]

Facebook Public Art Highlights from glennweiss.100 August 14-21, 2015

August 21, 2015 by Glenn Weiss

Eurasia and SHOUT competitions, Party hats for Dutch security cameras, Mexican sculptors in London, Mumbai taxis, Kingston Sculpture Biennial, WD mural in Athens, Exposition HABITER, Atelier Van Lieshout at the Ruhrtriennale, Senegal building, NYC mid-century mosaic and moving a Japanese tree. … [Read more...]

Projects on Facebook at glennweiss.100 in first week of August 2015

August 7, 2015 by Glenn Weiss

Projects on Facebook at glennweiss.100 .  Friend me. Travis Threlkel of Obscura Digital, Lee Jae-Hyo, Arte Sella, Javier Corvalán Arquitectura, Rudy Ricciotti Architecte, Ben Eine, Alejandro Duran, Os Gemeos, Kwang Young Chun.  The building by Javier Corvalan tilts to open and close with a hand cranked wench.   … [Read more...]

Great Idea: Powerwash the Dirt to Make a Mural

July 22, 2015 by Glenn Weiss

The electricity producing company, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna appealed to the Scholz & Friends agency and the artist Przemysław Trust Truściński  Located in the Bieszczady region of Poland, this "painting" wall 91 meters wide and 54 meters high was made from ultra-strong jets of water, removing the layer of sediment accumulated over the years on dam wall. Other work by Przemysław … [Read more...]

2 Girls Building

April 3, 2015 by Glenn Weiss

Within melbourne’s urban center, the ‘2 girls building’ by australian photographer samantha everton in collaboration with local practice KUD architects http://www.designboom.com/art/2-girls-building-melbourne-samantha-everton-kud-architects-04-02-2015/ … [Read more...]

#PublicArt posting on Facebook in November

November 24, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

After months of problems with this website certification, the problems have been resolved and the link re-established to the blog.  Here are few of 50 posts on facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100.  Please follow on Facebook. … [Read more...]

Weekly Posts on Public Art on Facebook

October 5, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Weekly post at facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100.  Marc Quinn, Jorge Rodriguez Gerada,  Pablo Curutchet, David Cerny, M-City, Paula Rebsom, KAWS, Yayoi Kusama … [Read more...]

Weekly Posts on Public Art Worldwide

September 28, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Public Art posted at facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100 :  Spencer Finch, Frank Gehry, Jimmie Durham, Anish Kapoor, SPY, ICY & SOT, Tomasz Domanski, Jacob Hashimoto, Dorothy Cross, Ai Wei Wei   … [Read more...]

Weekly Public Art Posts from Facebook

September 20, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Public projects posted from facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100  Subodh Gupta, Burning Man, Joana Vasconcelos, Will Alsop, Processcraft, Jan Kempenaers, JR, Zaha Hadid, Dubai Cloud … [Read more...]

Vancouver Biennale Open Air Installations

September 7, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Vancouver Canada continues to expanded the quality of both the temporary and permanent Open Air Museum.  Go the website to see all the works:  http://www.vancouverbiennale.com/explore-art/artworks/.  Vancouver makes a special effort to include artists from Canada, India and China.  The 2014 exhibition includes a focus on Brazil.   … [Read more...]

Weekly Public Art Posts on Facebook glenn.weiss.100

August 25, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's quote on public art: “Public art installations allow Chicagoans to be active participants in arts and culture, and as part of the Chicago Cultural Plan, we’ve made progress on a number of fronts to bring the arts directly to Chicago neighborhoods,” said Mayor Emanuel. “From Sculpture on the Boulevards to art installations on the lake front to more than 1,000 events … [Read more...]

Cement Relief Murals: Nair, Mitchell, Nivola and Scuri

August 18, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Over the last 70 years, a few artists have worked in concrete or cement for relief sculpture in public spaces.  The work includes pre-cast concrete panels hung on the building, form liners for poured in place concrete walls and hand carving of "green concrete" spread over a wall.  Four artists completed a significant amount of work: Costantino Nivola, Italy/USA, 1911-1988 Primarily: green … [Read more...]

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