Amid the pandemic, Otero has been looking inward, pursuing a series of highly personal works about Puerto Rico. Hyperallergic sat down with him to discuss this new body of work, now on view in Life During Wartime.
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The Rediscovery of Picasso’s Designs for a 100-Foot-Tall Bust in Florida
Pablo Picasso’s “Bust of a Woman” was once slated to appear on the campus of a Tampa-area university, and it would’ve been the world’s tallest concrete sculpture.
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1% for the Arts: A Hollow Gesture?
The town government of Suwanee, Georgia approved an ordinance which would ask all real estate developers to donate 1% of the budget of the building cost toward a public art project. The Atlanta Journal Constitution writes, “Where many struggling cities see public art as an extravagance these days, Suwanee, on firmer ground financially, sees it as a key to a prosperous future.”