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“Art in the Open” revisits the past, present, and future of public art in NYC

By Justine Testado|

Friday, Nov 3, 2017

Richard Haas, Arcade, South Street Seaport, 1978-1985. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.

In late 1960s New York City during a tumultuous period of urban redevelopment, public art began to take on a new meaning of revitalization — as well as a challenge to the traditional notion that art “should” only be kept inside museums or galleries. In light of the Public Art Fund's 40th anniversary, the upcoming exhibition “Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York” at the Museum of the City of New York revisits how public art has influenced New York City over the last few decades.

Opening on November 10, the exhibition explores the past, present, and future of public art in New York City. It'll showcase over 125 objects — renderings, models, photos, and video footage — and artists like Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Isamu Noguchi, Red Grooms, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Kara Walker, and more.

Read a little more about the exhibition below.

Isamu Noguchi, Red Cube, 140 Broadway, 1968. Photograph by Edmund Vincent Gillon. Museum of the City of New York, gift of Blair Davis, 2013.3.2.1667.

Following pioneering exhibitions like Sculpture in Environment in 1967 and the beginning of rotating installations in public parks, New York City joined the national trend of artists being invited to revive urban centers, like parks, plazas, and streets.

“This idea gained traction in an era of growing urban crisis. New York City was emerging from a period of vast redevelopment [...] that transformed the very nature of street life. While the resulting landscape seemed to many to have lost its human scale, it also created new spaces that public art advocates seized upon. During the 1970s, the fiscal crisis, the falling population, and empty commercial spaces likewise created both a sense of a vacuum and a spirit of experimentation that fed the public art movement.”

Agnes Denes, Wheatfields for Manhattan, Battery Park Landfill, 1982. Photograph by Donna Svennevik. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
Alfredo Jaar, A Logo for America, part of Messages to the Public, Times Square, 1987. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.

“While critics have sometimes denigrated the resulting installations as ‘plop art’ — or art ‘plopped’ into urban spaces — this approach to public art has generated a wide array of opportunities for artists to use the city’s outdoor spaces as venues for their work.”

Keith Haring, Yellow Arching Figure, w/ Untitled (Three Dancing Figures), part of Keith Haring on Park Avenue, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 1997. Photograph by Frederick Charles. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
Times Square Mural (2002) © Roy Lichtenstein, NYCT Times Square-42nd Street Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.
Ugo Rondinone, Human Nature, Rockefeller Center, 2013. Presented by Nespresso, Organized by Tishman Speyer and Public Art Fund. Photograph by Bart Barlow. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
Hank Willis Thomas, The Truth Is…, part of The Truth Is I See You, MetroTech Commons, 2015. Photograph by James Ewing. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. A project of Creative Time. Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, NY, May 10-July 6, 2014. Photo: Jason Wyche, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Artwork © 2014 Kara Walker.

“Over the past 50 years, temporary public art exhibitions have fanned out across the five boroughs and an installation of public art is now an expected feature of any new building project. Today, the “art in public” impulse finds expression in new venues like the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Governors Island, all of which regularly host dynamic and high-profile public art installations.”

“Art in the Open” will be on display until May 13, 2018. Learn more about the exhibition on MCNY's website.

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“Art in the Open” revisits the past, present, and future of public art in NYC

By Justine Testado|

Friday, Nov 3, 2017

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Richard Haas, Arcade, South Street Seaport, 1978-1985. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.

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In late 1960s New York City during a tumultuous period of urban redevelopment, public art began to take on a new meaning of revitalization — as well as a challenge to the traditional notion that art “should” only be kept inside museums or galleries. In light of the Public Art Fund's 40th anniversary, the upcoming exhibition “Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York” at the Museum of the City of New York revisits how public art has influenced New York City over the last few decades.

Opening on November 10, the exhibition explores the past, present, and future of public art in New York City. It'll showcase over 125 objects — renderings, models, photos, and video footage — and artists like Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Isamu Noguchi, Red Grooms, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Kara Walker, and more.

Read a little more about the exhibition below.

Isamu Noguchi, Red Cube, 140 Broadway, 1968. Photograph by Edmund Vincent Gillon. Museum of the City of New York, gift of Blair Davis, 2013.3.2.1667.

Following pioneering exhibitions like Sculpture in Environment in 1967 and the beginning of rotating installations in public parks, New York City joined the national trend of artists being invited to revive urban centers, like parks, plazas, and streets.

“This idea gained traction in an era of growing urban crisis. New York City was emerging from a period of vast redevelopment [...] that transformed the very nature of street life. While the resulting landscape seemed to many to have lost its human scale, it also created new spaces that public art advocates seized upon. During the 1970s, the fiscal crisis, the falling population, and empty commercial spaces likewise created both a sense of a vacuum and a spirit of experimentation that fed the public art movement.”

Agnes Denes, Wheatfields for Manhattan, Battery Park Landfill, 1982. Photograph by Donna Svennevik. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
Alfredo Jaar, A Logo for America, part of Messages to the Public, Times Square, 1987. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.

“While critics have sometimes denigrated the resulting installations as ‘plop art’ — or art ‘plopped’ into urban spaces — this approach to public art has generated a wide array of opportunities for artists to use the city’s outdoor spaces as venues for their work.”

Keith Haring, Yellow Arching Figure, w/ Untitled (Three Dancing Figures), part of Keith Haring on Park Avenue, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 1997. Photograph by Frederick Charles. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
Times Square Mural (2002) © Roy Lichtenstein, NYCT Times Square-42nd Street Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.
Ugo Rondinone, Human Nature, Rockefeller Center, 2013. Presented by Nespresso, Organized by Tishman Speyer and Public Art Fund. Photograph by Bart Barlow. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
Hank Willis Thomas, The Truth Is…, part of The Truth Is I See You, MetroTech Commons, 2015. Photograph by James Ewing. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. A project of Creative Time. Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, NY, May 10-July 6, 2014. Photo: Jason Wyche, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Artwork © 2014 Kara Walker.

“Over the past 50 years, temporary public art exhibitions have fanned out across the five boroughs and an installation of public art is now an expected feature of any new building project. Today, the “art in public” impulse finds expression in new venues like the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Governors Island, all of which regularly host dynamic and high-profile public art installations.”

“Art in the Open” will be on display until May 13, 2018. Learn more about the exhibition on MCNY's website.

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