Public Art Fund

Public Art Fund

. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/06donate.html?ex=1278302400&en=93a1beabd4ede5b8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss] [http://carnegie.org/sub/news/anon2005.html]

New York City public projects

The organization has cooperated with the Whitney Museum of American Art on the Whitney Biennial Outdoors, in Central Park. ["Is Sculpture Too Free for Its Own Good?" by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, May 7, 2004, Section E; PT2; Column 1; Leisure/Weekend Desk; Pg. 33; Art Review]

The Fund's work has increased due to the influence of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a supporter of public art. Since Bloomberg took office, he has asked the Public Art Fund to organize temporary exhibitions of outdoor artwork in City Hall Park. In 2003, they organized "Element E," created by Roy Lichtenstein 13 years before his death in 1997, for installation at City Hall Park. According to Susan Freedman, president of the Public Art Fund, these projects are "important to the morale of the art community," and they " [send] a message that the arts are alive in this city." ["Raising Lichtenstein in Manhattan" by Carol Vogel, The New York Times, November 14, 2003, Section E; Part 2; Column 3; Leisure/Weekend Desk; Pg. 31]

. ["A Depiction of Progress" by Carol Vogel, The New York Times, January 28, 2000, Section E; Part 2; Page 34; Column 3; Leisure/Weekend Desk]

Recent New York City projects included Nancy Rubin's "Big Pleasure Point" at Lincoln Center ("photo"); "Corner Plot" by Sarah Sze at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza; "Alexander Calder in New York" at the City Hall Park; and "Material World" at the MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, which features new commissions by Rachel Foullon, Corin Hewitt, Matthew Day Jackson, Peter Kreider, and Mamiko Otsubo.

Performance art

The Fund moved into a new territory when it announced it would present "Martin Creed’s Variety Show" on March 30, 2007, at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Creed won the Turner Prize in 2001. [" [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/arts/design/05voge.html?ex=1169442000&en=fb85f488808a9044&ei=5070 Inside Art: Public Performance Art] " by Carol Vogel, The New York Times, January 5, 2007, ]

Books

The book "Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund", celebrates the success of the Fund in financing many publicly placed works of art over the last few decades, many of which are now beloved, though they may at first have been derided as "ploppings". Several currents or movements in contemporary art, such as environmental sculpture, site-specific art, and land art, counterpose themselves philosophically to "plop art," as well as to traditional public monumental sculpture.

ee also

*Public art
*Plop art
*Culture of New York City

External links

* [http://www.publicartfund.org Public Art Fund homepage]
* [http://www.chiarapassa.it/publicart.html Digital Art in Public Space]
* [http://artabase.net/gallery/205-public-art-fund Public Art Fund Artabase page]

References

Further reading

* Susan K Freedman. [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/55954972&tab=holdings?loc=10001#tabs "Plop : recent projects of the Public Art Fund"] (London ; New York : Merrell Publishers in association with Public Art Fund, New York, 2004) ISBN 1858942489; ISBN 1858942470


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