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...]
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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...]
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...]
Public Art Images from the Week
Images from Nespoon, Mary Evans, Eliasson, Rushton and Tyman, Cerny... … [Read more...]
Cai Guo-Qiang exhibit boosts economy $14 million in Brisbane
BRISBANE.- ‘Falling Back to Earth’, the first Australian solo exhibition by Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, presented at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from November 2013 to May 2014, has resulted in a $14.51 million boost to Queensland’s economy. ‘Visitors were entranced by Heritage (2013), Cai’s installation of 99 animals peacefully gathered around a serene lake directly … [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...]
Public Art images from the Week
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Kara Walker Tangent: Remember Fred Wilson
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...]
Best of the Week in Public Art
Friend me at glenn.weiss.100 for the originals in real time. Two best finds of the week are the giant mural in Syria complete this year in the middle of the war and the Smokey Hollow Memorial to the African American Community that was demolished in the late 1960s. Most popular this week is the Edmonton, Canada, pavilion by Marc … [Read more...]
Public Art Images from the Week
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