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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...]

Other Funhouses – Mirror Rooms by Samaras, Kusama and Frank

August 26, 2015 by Glenn Weiss

As Bansky's Dismaland un-amusement park opened in the UK this week, I am looking at the mirror funhouses.   As a boy in the USA, part of every boy's life was visiting the mirrored funhouses at the traveling county fair or beachside amusement park.  Best with my brothers as you laugh in the curved mirrors or try to find each other in mirror maze.  Sometime before age 12, everyone figures out that … [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...]

#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 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 Facebook Posts

September 8, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Artists:  Carin Mincemoyer, Florentijn Hofman, Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yûsuke Nakano, Nick Cave, Xiang Jing, Archstoyanie, Franck Scurti, Anish Kapoor.  Friend me at facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100 Other NYC Department of Transportation Projects … [Read more...]

Is the Blue Light Tower the new 19th Century Memorial Obelisk?

August 5, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

For a hundred years, the stone obelisk became western civilization's preferred memorial for important individuals and death in wars.  Recently, the blue tower of light has emerged as the new memorial including the new "Spectra" by Ryoji Ikeda in London for WW1 dead from the UK.  A few differences: - Momentary vs Permanent - Night vs Day - Photographs Blue vs White - Random Location vs … [Read more...]

Public Art Images from the Week

August 3, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Images from Nespoon, Mary Evans, Eliasson, Rushton and Tyman, Cerny... … [Read more...]

Kara Walker Tangent: Remember Fred Wilson

July 13, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

The sugar baby is not public art.  I am stubbornly holding onto the idea that an essential part of the definition of  "public art" is the capacity for any person to stumble across the work in accessible public space.  Once the art is locked inside a structure, the key element of the "any person" disappears.  And more importantly it loses it's power as a threat or collaborator to public … [Read more...]

Public Art Images from the Week

June 28, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Friend me at https://www.facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100             … [Read more...]

Round-up of Articles on Kara Walker’s sugar baby

June 21, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

First:  Kara Walker's sugar baby is NOT public art.  It is big sculpture.  To qualify as public art, the work must be accidentally available to any person in real space.  The best public art engages a public space that is truly owned and protected by a community of people.    Once behind the walls - like a strip club - the vast public allows anything as long as the establishment does not attract … [Read more...]

Kara Walker Tangents: Sexual Sphinx

May 20, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

As I considered Walkers' sugar baby, I wanted to know about sphinx sculpture in general.  I was very surprised to learn the 17-18th century feminization of the sphinx with a subtle dose of sexuality in Europe.  In the ancient times, the memorable sphinx's are male with a sense of pride and self-importance, not sex.  The great sphinx at Giza Egypt fools the memory as a female with its head dress … [Read more...]

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Glenn Weiss is the writer of Aesthetic Grounds. He lives in Delray Beach, Florida, and formerly in Seattle and NYC.

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