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 .

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Subway Art - Soho



Area:


Spring St - ACE

Edith Kramer "New York Subway Station" (1994)
Located in the entrance of Spring St - 6th avenue
Mosaic depicting Union Sq. 14th Street subway station




Prince St. - QR

Janet Zweig, collaboration with Edward del Rosario "Carrying On" (2004)
Located in the intersection between Prince St. and Broadway
Materials: Steel, marble and slate
Linear composition of 194 9-inch tall figures performing daily activities. 
Title refers to three assumptions about New Yorkers: 1) They are always carrying something 2) After 9/11 they continued to "carry on" with their lives 3) As opinionated as they are, they always "carry on"

"Celebrates the individuality of New Yorkers"
https://www.janetzweig.com/public/CarryingOn.html





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