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Tilted Digital Rain

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Cities: Public Art and "Consensus"

Michael Levin, an artist lives and works in NY, leads Art Theory Project reading discussion on December 6, 2 P.M. at SVA MFA Fine Art building.

Michel Levin will discuss what defines private and public and what it means to traverse these two spaces with two articles – Public Art/Public Space: The Spectacle of the Tilted Arc Controversy by Gregg M. Horowitz and Thomas Is a Trip by Glenn Ligon.

A person can think of a city in many ways. When I hear the word "city," I think first of a large cluster of buildings. My mind runs through the names of the famous metropolises of history, and I usually conjure up the image of an artists' rendering depicting that place in its heyday. My experience of living in a city, though, is quite different. Living in a city means living around people. I don't think of buildings when I think about being around people, but then again they are always there, silently structuring our exchange. Many artists have sought to foster a different kind of exchange within or around the architecture of the city. Often, these have been met with resistance from "the public," a nebulous term that we tend to use carelessly. What is the public? In terms of the architecture of the city, what is its space? What parts of a city belong to the public, and what rights can the public exercise over them? By contrast, what is private? Are public and private spaces mutually exclusive? Can their aims be compatible? Does art bring a special understanding to these questions?

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THE PUBLIC ART DEBATE, 1982

Selections from ART/New York, a Video Magazine on Art

Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc,” from the program “Public Sculpture,” 1982 

http://98bowery.com/returntothebowery/art-new-york-richard-serra-artist-interviews.php

John Ahearn’s “We Are Family,” from the program “New Public Art,” 1983 

http://98bowery.com/returntothebowery/art-new-york-john-ahearn-graffiti-post-graffiti.php

Information and objects related to the art of the 1970s and 1980s

98bowery.com  and  gallery.98bowery.com