Artists -- Joana Vasconcelos, Harvey Fite, Dennis McNett, Éder Oliveira, Panya Clark Espinal, Höweler + Yoon, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Mark Reigelman, Tadashi Kawamata. Follow at glenn.weiss.100 on facebook. … [Read more...]
Weekly Public Art Facebook Posts
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...]
Vancouver Biennale Open Air Installations
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 for August 27 2014
Public art facebook posts with Shy Yong, Takashi Kuribayashi, Wang Shugang, Michael Sailstorfer, Florentijn Hofman … [Read more...]
Weekly Public Art Posts on Facebook glenn.weiss.100
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...]
Street Artists make Place Identity
Street artists like Haas and Hahn or JR are volunteering with or without crowd-funding or being commissioned by NGOs to help make place. Sometimes place making by paint occurs overtime such as the Wynwood Arts District murals in Miami or older historic murals in smaller towns across America in the 1980-90s such as Lake Placid, Florida. But this visioning by a single artist or artist team seems … [Read more...]
Festivals Generate the Best Permanent Public Art
Folkstone Triennial in the UK opens at the end of August. Thorough the Triennial, the city has commissioned some excellent permanent works. Perhaps arts festivals are the best way to "sneak" truly contemporary artworks into city public art collections. … [Read more...]
Is the Blue Light Tower the new 19th Century Memorial Obelisk?
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
Images from Nespoon, Mary Evans, Eliasson, Rushton and Tyman, Cerny... … [Read more...]
Kashink Street Art
According to her blog, KASHINK is one of the few very active female artists in the French graffiti/street art scene. She paints huge four eyed characters, with thick lines, vivid colors, in a very distinctive style. http://www.kashink.com … [Read more...]
Sky Drawings by Neil Dawson 1980s & 90s
In the 1980s and 1990s, New Zealand artist Neil Dawson invented these sky drawings. http://www.neildawson.co.nz/ … [Read more...]
Hanoi Ceramic Mural on Red River Dyke: 2007-2010
The Hanoi mural, which is built on the walls of the Red River dyke, was constructed between 2007-10. The concept came from Vietnamese artist, Nguyen Thu Thuy, a journalist and painter who works for the Hanoimoi newspaper. Ms Thuy wanted to mark the city’s millennium with an artistic mural which reinvigorated urban Hanoi and bring local communities together through public art. WATCH THE … [Read more...]