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, November 6, 2018

Reading Response

Love sculpture is the artwork by American artist Robert Indiana. There are four letters L O V and E on its body. It is in color red and blue. Originally it was a port art image in blue, red and green. It was served as a print image for a MOMA Christmas card in 1964. The sculpture has been made in multiples and placed around the world. The image was originally inspired by his father’s death. The red and green were meant to recall the sign of the Phillips 66 where his father toiled during the artist’s hardscrabble childhood when he was still known as Robert Clark. Later it was adapted by the hippie free love movement after skateboarding was banned in Philadelphia’s Love Park. There are also different versions in Hebrew, Chinese, Italian and Spanish. Although there are issues with copy rights, his work inspired and connected people’s hearts just as Gran Fury’s work, in a different way. Alow the series being placed all over the world sharing the subject of love is a movement by itself promoting love.


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