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New York City Bill Could Give Citizens Greater Say in Public Art Process
New legislation to be submitted to the New York City Council on Tuesday could bring an end to a decades-long debate surrounding democracy and public art.
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Reconstructing Managua Before the 1972 Earthquake
MANAGUA — Most people will advise you, on touching down in Managua, to rent a car and drive as fast out of the Nicaraguan capital as you can.
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Public Art for a Desert City with No Inhabitants
Does a city with no residents need public art? Absolutely, according to University of New Mexico (UNM) adjunct professor Sherri Brueggemann, who first heard about the Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation (CITE) plan last year.
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Central Park's 212 Paths in One Public Sculpture
Tatiana Trouvé mounted 212 giant spools of rope onto three steel structures in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, with each rope representing one of Central Park’s winding walkways.
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Smashed Conceptual Art Water Fountain Will Flow Again
Michael Asher's understated drinking fountain sculpture on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus was recently destroyed by a masked vandal, but officials at the school plan to rebuild it.
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Vandal Destroys Conceptual Art Water Fountain
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently lost one of its campus’s most subtle and unusual piece of public art.
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A Digital Waterfall That Illuminates the Threat of Air Pollution
Artist Andrea Polli's "Particle Falls" is a waterfall of light that changes colors from blue to flaming reds and yellows based on real time air quality data.
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Five Finalists Compete to Build Controversial Holocaust Memorial in Warsaw
Last week, the Remembrance and Future Foundation (RFF) announced the five finalists competing to design a controversial Warsaw monument to Poles who helped Jews during the German occupation of Poland from 1939–45.
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Phallic Cloud Art Sets Off Storm
A new piece of public art in Auckland, part of which, when seen from a certain angle, resembles a penis, is rubbing locals the wrong way.
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Touch Screens and Tech Art Take Over Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — A festival is underway in this megalopolis with the ambitious proposal to impose ephemeral, technology-based public art on Chilangos as they go about their daily lives.
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Can 16,000 Suspended Flowers Make Times Square Tolerable?
New Yorkers often complain that Times Square feels sterile and dead. The London-based artist Rebecca Louise Law’s new installation, “Flowers 2015: Outside In,” suspended in the lobby of the Viacom building, reintroduces nature and life to the neighborhood’s largely artificial environment.
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12 Marble Snowmen Laugh at Snowmageddon
Serendipitously anticipating the city’s underwhelming blizzard, a troupe of marble snowmen — the latest installment in Swiss artist Peter Regli’s Reality Hacking series — was installed in Manhattan near Madison Square Park this past Sunday.