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The Public and the Arts

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1984
The tremendous growth in public involvement with the arts and public funding of the arts, which the United States witnessed in the 1960s and 1970s, took place during a unique period in American history. During that period the social values of the nation shifted radically. In the 1980s, we are again undergoing fundamental change in our social, economic,
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No “Blank Canvas”: Public Art and Gentrification in Houston's Third Ward

, 2018
Public art and urban renewal have become integral to reconstructing urban landscapes. In this essay we assess how these two spatial practices converge and diverge in the historically and predominately Black community of the Third Ward in Houston, Texas ...
W. Wright, C. Herman
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Service Media: Is it ‘Public Art’? Or is it Art in Public Space?

Public, 2015
Abstract Review of Service Media: Is it ‘Public Art’? Or is it Art in Public Space? (2012), Stuart Keeler (ed.), Chicago: Green Lantern Press, 154 pp., ISBN: 978-1450742160.
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Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy

, 2018
Democracy inherently questions its own identity. It therefore allows public art to explore its values critically and to suggest new ones. But it also has fragile defenses against artworks, acts, organizations and attitudes that surreptitiously or ...
F. Evans
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Contradictions in Participatory Public Art: Placemaking as an Instrument of Urban Cultural Policy

The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 2018
This article addresses the current focus within urban cultural policy on using art as a tool in urban development. Based on theories of participation, democracy, and public art, the article sets out to investigate critically the concept of placemaking ...
Hjørdis Brandrup Kortbek
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The Resonances of Public Art: Thoughts on the Notion of Co‐Productive Acts and Public Art

, 2018
Using a serendipitous public art encounter as a point of departure, this article explores how what I call co-productive acts are an important part of building relationships between individuals, public art installations, communities, and public art ...
J. Palmer
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Public Art for an Inclusive City: Producers and Publics on the Social Potentials and Problems of Flagship Vis‐à‐Vis Community Art

, 2018
This article engages with socio-spatial theory on the “trialectic” between the physical, social, and spatial to examine the roles and uses of flagship vis-a-vis community art as experienced by both producers and publics.
M. Zebracki, D. Bekker
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The Role of Public Art and Culture in New Urban Environments: The Case of ‘Katara Cultural Village

, 2017
In recent years, public art has been featured as a trend in urban environments in GCC. During its period of development, the State of Qatar worked on large megaprojects designed to attract global investments and tourists.
Maryam Al Suwaidi, Raffaello Furlan
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Beyond the Public Art Machine: A Critical Examination of Street Art as Public Art

Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 2013
This article examines street art as a specific type of public art. With Patricia C. Phillips’ idea of the failing “public art machine” as a point of departure, it contextualises the discussion of public art as a phenomenon that goes beyond sanctioned artistic expressions.
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The Uneasy Relationship of Self‐Critique in the Public Art Institution

, 2016
Reacting to the gradual neoliberalization of the European public art institutional landscape, actors within a number of critical art museums and galleries have attempted to reform their institutions from within through a process that is largely ...
E. Mahony
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