Talk:Public art

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um, is there a reason why this page's examples are a little.. French -heavy? Cheezewizard 08:54, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Probably because the text appears to have been written by a French / French-Canadian person (note the original grammar and moniker).

[edit] Suggestions

1. The description of guerilla interventions that become accepted into the mainstream should be moved into a section of its own with an appropriate title

2. Similarly, a section on public art policy and its part in Corporate Social Responsibility strategy needs to be added, incorporating the NYC Pecent For Art material already here.

3. A separate section on public artists, possibly chronological.

4. More consideration needs to be given to temporary works.

I don't feel qualified to do this work myself. Hence the cowardly suggestion that somebody else does it. --Dominic Sayers 12:54, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Public? or outdoors/exhibited or site specific.

Seems there are a lot of contradictions on this page:

public art is art that is presented in the public domain, including galleries and even shops - it is confused here with art that is located outdoors. this could be due to the fact that 'public art' is a buzzword used by artists and art interested bodies to denote a particular kind of current visual art practice, usually installation based, site specific, exterior work.

so the statement about work being unfeasable in a gallery setting is actually missing the point. gallery art is usually public art.

there is also a confusion that seems to revolve around wether the art is made specialy for the location or simply exhibited. both art that tours as an exhibit and work made specificaly for a particular location is public art, when it is shown in a public place. money spent by local authorities wether it is on access to existing works or the commisioning of new work is all spent on public art.

the paragraph about durability of materials is pretty bad - especially when you consider that it is not the case for temporary sculpture, performance, film, all forms of public art.

I think the best way to resolve this is to distinguish between 'art in public' use of the term public art and the pseudo movement 'public art' then to avoid thinking solely about sculpture.  :DavidP 01:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Ok. I have waited 8 months to see if anyone agrees or disagrees with my statement above - seems no-one is too bothered. so I'm now going to try and clear the definition up a bit. Regards to all fellow public arts practitioners out there. DavidP

[edit] Public Art

I have a couple of questions: (1) Who should decide about public art? (2) What constitutes a successful public art work?-----hunneymelons