Tag Archive "public-art"

Wrestling Grumman Greenhouse into place – a photo post

We got some photos from Heike Rass of Jordan Griska’s airplane being installed in Lenfest Plaza.  We are herewith sharing them with you!  All the photos were taken yesterday by Sean Tucker.  Griska is the one wearing the bright green t-shirt.  The installation will continue Monday and should be finished that day, Rass said.  We interviewed Jordan about his plane for a podcast.  The interview is full of lots of information about the project.  Check it out.

“Flight” on the staircase – Liz Magic Laser’s flight of fancy in Times Square

“Flight,” a performance piece of scenes lifted from classic films, collaged and re-staged by Liz Magic Laser hits the great white way this weekend, or rather it lands on the red staircase in the heart of Times Square. The piece, originally performed at PS1 in 2010, has been refined to meet and respond to the parameters of this most theatrical of intersections and as one of the Times Square guides said to several tourists – “It’s a live show going on – It’s something different.”

Weekly Update – Elisabeth Nickles’ chicken of the sea and other delicious public art treats at Philly International and Septa

Known for her mournful, ancient-looking glass and bronze sculptures of animals and birds, Elisabeth Nickles’ new work at PHL is a big surprise—the pieces are bright-colored paper sculptures that capture the spirit of a tropical snorkeling adventure. The rosy, sandy, seaweed- and creature-filled world in four large Plexiglas museum cases perfectly captures what Nickles calls “the essence of the sea.”

Bob Cozzolino and Sid Sachs discuss public art on artblog radio

This episode sponsored by Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO, a program of the Fairmount Park Art Association Curators Bob Cozzolino of PAFA and Sid Sachs of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery talk about the good, the bad and the importance of public art. Below is the 30-second sample clip. And below that is the full 15-minute interview. 30 second sample of sid and bob

Next week on artblog radio – a discourse on public art

Episode 4 next Monday features Curators Bob Cozzolino of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Sid Sachs of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in a heady discussion about public art.  In the short sample below, hear Sid opine that money should not be spent just to spend money because it spawns a lot of bad art.  Hear Bob asking Sid to name some bad public art in Philadelphia…  Listen to the entire episode on Sept. 13. Curators Bob Cozzolino and Sid Sachs talk about public art — 28 second sample

Endangered species–public art at PA Convention Center

When people bark about the threat of a public art void at the Convention Center extension (see Stephan Salisbury’s article in today’s Inquirer here), they seem to be all over the place on just what they mean by public. For instance, art inside the building? That is not public. I don’t think too many Philadelphians ever get to see the so-called “public art” in Convention Center part 1.

New York summer, Part 1 – rooftop tiki bar and bells

Last Friday night Steve, Cate and I ran in to the Whitney Museum to see the Christian Marclay Festival — part exhibition, part performance space and part graffitti-friendly hangout (well, chalk-on-blackboard grafitti anyway). We missed the 7 pm performance but the place was still pretty packed till closing at 9 pm. The museum’s pay what you wish policy on Friday nights is obviously a draw.

Public art–there’s an app for that

I’ve done a lot of snarling at Philadelphia’s public art from time to time, but an unusually well thought out, user-friendly public art project has been unveiled recently that brings rhyme and reason plus history and art history to some of the sculptures that I’ve rejected or ignored over the years (not to mention to a bunch of favorites, like the Charioteer of Delphi, shown below). The city’s main tenders of public art, the Fairmount Park Art Association, have created a terrific audio tour–Museum Without Walls: AUDIO–of public sculptures. On the hoof or at home online, the tour works in ... More » »

"The Great Mother" and "The Great Doctor" alive and well

Waldemar Raemisch, The Great MotherDedicated: 1955Location: Youth Study Center, 20th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway.Bronze, on concrete basesMaximum height 11’4″ (bases 3′); width of each group approximately 20′; depth 5′ An email arrived Oct. 1, a sort of all points bulletin from sculptor Stephen Robin: Hi Everyone - I’m writing on behalf of a long gone, but I hope not entirely forgotten sculptor, Waldemar Raemisch. Unless I missed something, in all the discussion of the Barnes relocation, and the consequent destruction ofthe Youth Study Center, nothing has been said about the fate of the Raemisch sculptures The Great Mother and ... More » »