Giant flower paintings by Michael Lin, 1938 Endless Column by Brancusi in Rumanian, Walking polar bear in London, Blood works by Jody Pinto in the 1970s, The four horseman by Jason deCaires Taylor wait to drown in the Thames with global warming, Didier Faustino's view towers, Obelisk Art 450 opens in St. Augustine, Florida, Climate deniers installation in Australia, The art of the rake with beach … [Read more...]
Public Art Highlight from the Last Week of August
Walls of crates, Fabric moths flying in light bulbs, Mexican migrant return to family by projector, Twisting big rig truck, Poured paint colors abandoned ship, Graphite over entire house, Pink plastic "Broken Obelisk", Plastic buckets rise from shipping containing, Otterness play equipment in Qatar, Chinese warplane rainbow, Split dome in river Friend me at facebook.com/glennweiss.100 … [Read more...]
Summer of Balls in Public Art
Balls seems to be a theme for the summer of 2015. 9 million balls were dumped into the California water reservoirs to reduce evaporation while thousands of people "swam" in Snarkitecture's BEACH with 1 million balls at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. In the UK, Charles Petillon made a white cloud with 100,000 sphere balloons and Steve Messam held red balloons at 5 feet for … [Read more...]
Sign the LETTER TO Mayor Bill de Blasio – Don’t Rip Up the Times Square Plazas!
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
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 Posted on Facebook in second week of August 2015 on glennweiss.100
Hew Locke, Magna Carta, Antony Gormley, Florence, Kakudai Faucets, BNKR Arquitectura, Chapel, James Turrell, Freyja Bardell and Brian Howe, Mammoth, Taiwan Bent Mailboxes, Chinese Cloud Gate, Cai Guoqiang, Fireworks, Botanico Culiacan. Project posted at facebook/glennweiss.100. … [Read more...]
Making Money in Public Art: Ottmar Hörl, Friends with You, Hofman, Lewin, CrackingArt
Recently, I stumble upon the work of German artist, Ottmar Hörl , as an example of an alternative method to support and produce public art. Rather than seek the approval and funding on the local art's establishment, the artist seeks agencies more engaged in civic celebrations or tourism. Less artist evaluation and more excellent public relations and photographs. Fun and colorful are important … [Read more...]
Projects on Facebook at glennweiss.100 in first week of August 2015
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...]
Bringing the Amusement Park to the City. Ferris Wheels, Rollercoasters and Giant Slides
With the re-conceptualization of older downtown as "fun zones", the amusement park is now being commissioned as permanent and temporary public art. What does it mean? Are visual arts the new circus parade and acts? Are we street vendors of murals and inflatables. Are the visual artists inventing the new global, country, city and community events will be as romantic as Woodstock in 30 years? … [Read more...]
Weiss Facebook Posts from July 24-31, 2015
The following are sample facebook posts at the end of July, 2015 on facebook.com/glennweiss.100. Please friend or follow me. Los Carpinteros, German Crew, gijs-van-vaerenbergh, yusuke-seki, King Narai of Ayutthaya, Edoardo Tresoldi , Gonzalo Borondo … [Read more...]
Mirror, Mirror on the Ceiling. Why? Foster, Eliasson, MVRDV and others.
Mirrors on the walls have been popular since the unveiling of great hall of mirrors at Versailles in 1678. Adds to the sparkle and apparent size of the room. Exterior walls of mirror glass begins in the early 1970s in the USA by architects like Cesar Pelli and I.M. Pei. Reduces the scale on the street and skyline. Merge with the sky. But mirrors on the ceiling?? The first reference is the … [Read more...]
Steel maze at Belgium coal mine by Gijs – Van Vaerenbergh
From DesignBoom, With a focus on the experience of space, gijs van vaerenbergh — a collaboration of belgian architects and artists pieterjan gijs and arnout van vaerenbergh — have realized an immersive labyrinth at the central square of C-mine Art Centre in Genk, Belgium. a one kilometer maze of steel corridors, with walls that tower 5 meters above the earth, surrounds installation visitors, … [Read more...]