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“DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’s new temporary public art project, will result in twenty-five groundbreaking temporary public art installations that will be installed concurrently throughout the District of Columbia.”
Irrigate: Art happens here
Placemaking is the act of people coming together to change overlooked and undervalued public and shared spaces into welcoming places where community gathers, supports one another, and thrives. Places can be animated and enhanced by elements that encourage human interaction – from temporary activities such as performances and chalked poetry to permanent installations such as landscaping and unique art.
Reclaim Market Street!, an exhibition and series of public programs in San Francisco, CA created by the Studio for Urban Projects, is an example of how artists are using their practice to engage the public in creating solutions to real-world problems.
Bruce Charlesworth reports from ISEA in Istanbul.
Public Matters, LLC, a self-described “rag-tag group of consultants”, is the artist-run initiative behind the production of the South L.A. Market Makeovers. Their goal, simply stated, is to “work with community members to create media about their neighborhoods…to develop in them a sense of ownership over these places and a belief that they can directly shape their neighborhoods’ future.
A post by Sue Bell Yank
Street Folk © Tyree Guyton. Photo Cezanne Charles
Art X Detroit was a five-day multidisciplinary celebration that exclusively presented newly commissioned works created by the 2008-2010 Kresge Eminent Artists and Artists Fellows, from April 6-10, 2011 with an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ( MOCAD) and public art continuing to April 24, 2011. An exciting program of dance and musical performances, literary readings, workshops, panel discussions, public art and special exhibitions, Art X Detroit was hosted at more than a dozen venues located throughout Midtown Detroit’s Cultural Center.
Airport-commissioned artworks have a certain role to play as celebrations of flight and the human longing to fly, to travel, to meet each other. The opening of Terminal 2 at the San Francisco airport brings five new artworks to this site, including commissioned work by artists Walter Kitundu and Charles Sowers.
Walter Kitundu: Bay Area Bird Encounters
Public Art the Musical
Christine Podas-Larson opens Public Art the Musical
Public Art the Musical
Karyssa Jacson, Michael Murphy and Allen Lovejoy find their favorite public art gone missing
Public Art the Musical
Brady Lorenzen laments the disappearance of Western Sculpture Park
Public Art the Musical
Wing Young Huie can’t find his University Avenue Project
Public Art the Musical
Maybe the real art is inside each of us
Public Art the Musical
They’re off to see the Non Prophet, Marcus Young
Public Art the Musical
PASP board closes with dance – and an ask
Had a great time last night at the fundraiser for Public Art Saint Paul, which featured “Public Art the Musical.” Go to the jump for some video of Marcus Young belting it out.
Sorry I couldn't Be there, Project VII, via @Platea
“‘Sorry I Couldn’t Be There‘ is a crowd-created video series. Developed by members of @Platea, the social media art collective directed by An Xiao, the series features artists from around the world explaining briefly why they couldn’t attend #rank and swing by Miami. Ultimately, the video would highlight concerns around geographic access and about who’s left out during large art fairs. For too long, the influential art centers have been located in major metropolitan regions such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, London, Beijing and Seoul. We want to highlight the parts of the world where artists are working.”–William Powhida via Hashtag Class.
“The Big Print” is comprised of art from 1180 kids and adults and an overall design inspired by historic Norwegian knitting patterns.
The Big Print is based on public art events around steamroller printing during the 2008 “Thousand Print Summer,” including Northern Lights’ The UnConvention during the Republican National Convention. The resulting prints by 1180 kids and adults are now installed at St. Olaf in NorthField, MN. Congratulations ArtOrg! Join the celebrations at the Big Print Block Party 2 to 4 pm, Sunday, November 21, 2010, in Buntrock Commons, St. Olaf College.
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty has an almost mythic status. Perhaps less so, now that is has been routinely visible for some years.
"Hello world, goodbye San Jose," from Christopher Baker, offscript, 300 Santana Row, San Jose, CA Today's question - What is your dream for the future? Commissioned by ZER01 for the 01SJ Biennial
I’m heading home after an amazing 01SJ Biennial. What should I see on the way?
Bureau of High Speed Rail, MOTC Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Access MRT System Construction Project
Taipei, Taiwan
Deadline: August 30th, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Stephanie Syjuco, Future Shock Nesting Boxes, 2005
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Saul Becker, Strip, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Jim Campbell, Ambiguous Icon #1 (running falling), 2000
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Peter Chilvers and Sandra O’Neill, Air, 2009
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
John F. Simon, Jr., Every Icon, 1997
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Beatriz da Costa, Pigeonblogger, 2006/2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Robert J. Lang, Peregrine Falcon, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Daina Taimina, 13-Symmetry, 2005, and Gail Wight, Ghost, 2004
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Christopher Locke, Egosiliqua malusymphonicus, 2010, and Hilarofustis atarium, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Erik Klein, Altair Musical Interference, 1975/2009
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Natalie Jeremijenko, Feral Robotic Dog, 2006
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Eduardo Kac, videotext works, 1985-86
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Gail Wight, Ghost, 2004
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Ken Goldberg and Karl F. Böhringer, flw, 1996, and Frank Oppenheimer, bamboo cane
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Tad Hirsch, Tripwire, 2006
I just returned from San Jose working on the 2010 01SJ Biennial where, among other projects, I worked with Jaime Austin and Shona Kitchen to install “Small Wonders,” a cabinet exhibition based on the idea of the wunderkammer at the new expansion of the San Jose International Airport – which has some amazing public art, and you should definitely fly through there next time you come to the Bay Area.
Small Wonders includes work by Saul Becker, Jim Campbell, Center for PostNatural History, Peter Chilvers and Sandra O’Neill, Beatriz da Costa, Amy Franceschini, Ken Goldberg and Karl F. Böhringer, Tad Hirsch, Misako Inaoka, Natalie Jeremijenko, Eduardo Kac, Erik Klein, Robert J. Lang, Christopher Locke, Frank Oppenheimer, John F. Simon, Jr., SuttonBeresCuller, Stephanie Syjuco, Daina Taimina, and Gail Wight.
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Opening night, Wing Young Huie, The University Avenue Project
Last night was the magnificent “culmination” of years of photographing University Avenue in Saint Paul, MN, by artist Wing Young Huie. Four years in the making, tenaciously midwifed by Public Art Saint Paul, The University Avenue Project is a major public art installation with hundreds of photographs posted in businesses along 6 miles of the Avenue. Hundreds of people came to the “Project(ion) Site,” at 1433 University Avenue, conceived and produced by Northern Lights.mn with MS&R Architects, where a nightly slide show of Wing’s work can be seen accompanied by a rotating soundtrack of MN-based musicians through October 31.
Anish Kapoor, "Orbit" viewing tower for the 2012 London Olympic Park (simulation). It will be the largest public art work in the UK. via Cultural Olympics.org
via Culture @ the Olympics
Hard to argue with this, in one sense, and certainly better copy than this description of Siah Armajani’s Centennial Cauldron for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Theresa Himmer, Volcano, 2008
I know it’s a bit specious, but I might as well do something while I am here.
Mount Vesuvius emitting a column of smoke after its eruption on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
The art of the volcano has been around since at least the late 1700s when Sir William Hamilton studied the eruptions of Vesuvius and other volcanoes, commissioning many views such as this colored etching by Pietro Fabris from 1779, Mount Vesuvius emitting a column of smoke after its eruption on 8 August 1779. via Wellcome Library, London.
Art and Architecture in the Public Sphere of Cities. Joshua Decter, director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program at USC, organized and moderated this event exploring art and architecture in the public sphere, and unorthodox ways of engaging the public. The panel featured Anne Pasternak, president and artistic director of Creative Time, New York; Los Angeles based installation artist Doug Aitken; and Peter Zellner, Los Angeles-based architect and founding principal of ZELLNERPLUS. The event was presented as part of Visions and Voices, and was held on February 2, 2009, at the Davidson Conference Center.
Sometimes in the dead of winter in MN we tend to forget that summer ever existed, or that we have neighbors! This project by Gail Katz James is a friendly reminder of warmth (from sun and spirit)!
Photo by Sue Hartley
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San Jose Airport Art Program – Consulting Art Technician “ (aka ArtGeek)”
“The ArtGeek oversees the largest concentration of technology-based public artwork in the country. Located in the San Jose International Airport’s brand new terminal, the collection includes a giant propeller-driven robotic sculpture, streaming networked cameras, a massive cloud of flickering glass, liquid-cooled projectors, twitter feeds, and a school of live fish with underwater surveillance cameras. Working from an underground Art+Tech workshop with electronics bench and state-of-the-art sound system, the ArtGeek keeps it all humming.” More info.
Rome is finally giving proper space to contemporary art. Not only between the walls of galleries and other traditional venues, but also in the streets, hosting new buildings (Zaha Hadid’s new MAXXI museum and Odile Decq’s expansion for Macro, to open in spring 2010), performances and open-air installations.
Doug Aitken’s Frontier is the latest evidence of this new deal: a spectacular video work installed on the Isola Tiberina, a natural island located in the very heart of the city, emerging from the river. After the end of the show, the work will be donated to Rome’s contemporary art museum (Macro), where it will be visible next year.
‘Dots for Love and Peace’ was designed specifically for the City Gallery by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who is renowned for her use of dots and repetitive patterns. The public artwork celebrates both her Mirrored Years exhibition and the re-opening of the City Art Gallery building. via StopPress.
Home town manufacturer 3M supports new Yayoi Kusama Dots for Love and Peace in Wellington, NZ.
via StopPress
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