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 Stations - Meatpacking Districts and West Village

Christopher Street Station

The station has a series of 12 mosaics done in 1994 by ceramic artist Lee Grozwol in collaboration with fifth and sixth grade students from the nearby PS 41. They are divided into four sets of three murals each with the themes: founders, providers, bohemians, and rebels. The MTA describes the piece as a presentation that “recognizes the many individuals who gave the neighborhood its reputation as a cauldron of artistic and political activity.”

 https://findingnyc.com/2017/09/24/subway-station-art-23/


Houston Street Station

The station has murals made by Deborah Brown in 1994. They depict underwater creatures as if they were in the station. Realistic turtles and whales wait for the subway alongside the riders.



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