Course Description

This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Meatpacking and West Village

Meatpacking District and the West Village
I walked around, starting on Washington St and 14th St all the way to W Houston, then walked down Hudson to 8th Ave and down Bleecker to 6th Ave. I hen headed back to school for class. I chose this route because I wanted to walk both through less hectic, residential streets and more transit filled ones like Hudson. I also purposely avoided Sheridan Sq and the piers since I am already familiar with them. Even though I think these are very important to the city and the community, I wanted to look for public art in a more broad definition of the word. I looked a lot at shop windows, sidewalk chalk art, murals that were often in schools or gardens, stickers on mailboxes, some architecture, advertising. This is a photographic survey of my walk:

























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