Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
How can the arts and culture community make sure it’s on the policy radar of candidates campaigning to be Philadelphia’s next mayor? The answer, from arts leaders at a forum at Moore College, is simple: Don’t ask the mayor how … Continued
I was honored to be invited as a U.S. representative to an Urban Thinkers Campus workshop called “The City We Need: Open for Art,” this winter. About 50 arts professionals, artists and planners from around the world debated the relationship between … Continued
January 8 update: Bruguera seems to be under some form of house arrest. As we celebrate the new year with friends and family, and use this winter break to contemplate our plans for the year, we should take a moment … Continued
Arlington County Economic Development, the home agency for the Arlington, Va., public art program, has just published an article I authored, Four Lenses on the Value of Public Art. From the introduction: “This paper sets a context for Arlington’s public … Continued
Last night I joined a faculty retreat at Pratt Institute’s Program for Planning and Sustainable Development. The question at hand: How can the school strengthen its teaching about everything to do with the public realm? Should the school offer a … Continued
Next week I will be working in Tacoma with Robert Gay and Lucy Begg, of Thoughtbarn, on a public art master plan and demonstration project for a new trail in downtown, Tacoma, Washington. I was invited by the blog Spaceworks … Continued
Via PlanPhilly You’ve seen them from time to time as you walk about the city — the giant clothespin at Centre Square, the “ghost house” at Franklin Court, the crazy roller-coaster-like structure suspended in the Convention Center, the “cave” that … Continued
Toronto’s Nuit Blanche – which just completed its fourth run in early October – is the first all-night art festival in North America to establish itself as an ongoing concern. The whole concept of compressing an art exhibition – something … Continued