Showing posts with label public art that's actually good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public art that's actually good. Show all posts
21 April 2020

The Strange Death of the Virus Vanguard!

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On 20 April, the government of Singapore presented a new tool in the public-health armamentarium fighting the coronavirus epidemic: superh...
03 October 2019

Hard to Read

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One reason the Waukegan Public Library may have chosen not to portray native son Ray Bradbury as a little boy (as I discussed yesterday) i...
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02 October 2019

Ray Bradbury’s Rocket

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I am not taken with the Ray Bradbury sculpture erected in his native town of Waukegan, Illinois, and unveiled this summer. Zachary Oxma...
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18 July 2017

The Tin Woodman of Forkland

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Starting in 1993, Jim Bird has been building statuary out of old farm equipment and hay bales on his fields in Forkland, Alabama. Among th...
23 November 2015

Giddap

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I was impressed by Brooklyn artist Adrian Landon’s mechanical horse . Click on the picture to see a video . I was a little disappointed...
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15 September 2014

Another Childhood Illusion Shattered

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Tonight I attended Leonard Marcus’s talk about Robert McCloskey on the centenary of the author-illustrator’s birth. (It turns out he was b...
13 February 2014

Art for a Winter’s Day

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With yet another snowstorm piling up outside my door, I’m sharing some of the beautiful and transient artwork that Andy Goldsworthy sculpte...
27 January 2014

Alice in Guildford

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Charles Dodgson settled his sisters in Guildford, England, and died there in 1898. In 1990, the town commemorated his most famous work by...
06 January 2014

More Hastings

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Leigh Dyer is a self-taught metal sculptor working out of Hastings, the English town best down for a battle that took place nearby nearly...
25 December 2013

The Tradition of the Gävle Goat

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For this holiday, Oz and Ends brings you the story of the Gävle Goat. As Slate describes , the Gävle goat was instituted all the way ba...
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03 December 2013

Parade Balloons Over 75 Years

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Macy’s 1939 parade included a Tin Man balloon to promote MGM’s new movie, The Wizard of Oz . For the movie’s seventy-fifth anniversary (...
22 August 2013

The Visual Display of Edward Tufte

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About a quarter-century ago, I was a young Editorial Assistant at a publishing company, and someone handed me a copy of Edward Tufte ’s Th...
15 August 2013

Where to Find the Runaway Bunny

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Fuse #8’s catalogue of public children’s-literature statuary in the US alerted me to the Runaway Bunny statue outside the Westerly Publi...
21 July 2013

Robin Statuary at Comic-Con

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This weekly Robin features photos of two statues of the Boy Wonder on display at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. On the left is an infla...
19 June 2013

Suburb Reverting to Nature?

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Early this month, a coyote bit the dog of one of my writing-group friends, Karen Day . This was, the local newspaper reported , one of mor...
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26 September 2012

Birthday for Ducklings

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This Saturday, 29 September, the Friends of the Public Garden in Boston will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the installation of Nancy S...
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03 September 2012

Hang On a Minute

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Among the public artworks commissioned in Britain in conjunction with the Olympics is Richard Wilson’s monumental statue atop the De La Wa...
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07 June 2012

“You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex Four”

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So I was thinking, “Where on Earth could we find the right sets for an affordable remake of Zardoz ?” And then I realized that the former Yu...
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26 May 2012

Swell in Possibility

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From the Boston Globe and Jeannine Atkins come descriptions of the “Little White House Project: Dwell in Possibility,” an art installati...
18 February 2012

Apparently It’s Art

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The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research has listed the art edition of  Hellbound 2 , a horror-comics anthology produced by Riverbird ...