{"id":1099,"date":"2009-09-22T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/from_eyesore_to_destination\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T02:14:27","slug":"from_eyesore_to_destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/from_eyesore_to_destination.html","title":{"rendered":"Public art – from eyesore to destination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cosmetic change has a bad rap, but not Tirana, Albania, a blighted city revived <\/a>by the application of squares of color to crumbling buildings, celebrated by Anri Sala <\/a>in “Dammi i Colori”<\/a> (Give Me the Colors), from 2003.<\/p>\n

\"anrisalabuildngs.jpg\"<\/span>Two public projects tapping the same vein are among the most successful in Seattle’s recent history: Dan Corson<\/a>‘s Wave Rave Cave<\/i><\/a> under a freeway off-ramp on Alaskan Way in Belltown, and Sheila Klein<\/a>‘s Roosevennavelt: Columnseum<\/i><\/a>, 10 acres of wasteland under the 1-5 freeway on Roosevelt near 65th St.<\/p>\n

Corson’s site is a strip between two chain-link fences. To overcome the impact of those barriers, he created wave-like mounds in concrete and covered them in gravel. During the day, their oddity is charming. They look as if a construction crew longing for the sea took license with company equipment during the lunch hour.<\/p>\n

\"dancorsonwaveplin.jpg\"<\/span>At night, those waves become psychedelic stalagmites.<\/p>\n

\"dancorsonwavecolor.jpg\"<\/span>Klein treated freeway pillars as dresser’s dummies. Vertical lines are so slimming.<\/p>\n

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Has anyone else in Seattle redeemed a run-down part of town by the application of Albanian color principles? Thank you, Frank Gehry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cosmetic change has a bad rap, but not Tirana, Albania, a blighted city revived by the application of squares of color to crumbling buildings, celebrated by Anri Sala in “Dammi i Colori” (Give Me the Colors), from 2003. Two public projects tapping the same vein are among the most successful in Seattle’s recent history: Dan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}