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

Union Square Subway Narrative

The Union Square Subway is the home of Mary Miss's works that are spread out throughout the subway station. Her work holds the history of this subway station and provides insight into the past with interesting lenses to view the landscape of the subway station. Some of the works include stand-alone subway panels, red frames with old subway tiles inside, red rectangular viewfinders that point at old significant parts of the subway, and metal bars that look into old subway platforms. Miss's work highlights the fleeting history of this place that oftentimes does not get the recognition it deserves.












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