by Whitney Kimball on July 25, 2012
As A Blade of Grass announces its candidates for grantees, we wonder whether public art should challenge a general audience.
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by Alana Chloe Esposito on June 27, 2012
The neighborhood surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) buzzed last Tuesday as moderate-sized crowds mingled on Fulton Street in front of three newly unveiled public art installations. It was precisely the intended effect of BAMart:Public, an initiative to enliven underutilized public spaces with visual art (a fourth project is on view inside BAM’s Peter J. Sharp building). David Harper, the program’s curator, walked me through the installations and explained the project’s genesis along the way.
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