Common Ground: where an an artist's personal vision intersects with civic function

The New York Public Art Fund has launched its summer exhibition programme starting with Common Ground a group exhibition featuring sculpture, installation and performance. Curated by Nicholas Baume, the exhibition looks at how different works of art approach the idea of public sculpture and civic engagement. Read more...
Image: Paul McCarthy's inflatable ketchup bottle in Common Ground, a Public Art Fund exhibition curated by Nicholas Baume

The Andy Monument, Union Square NY

A new public art work has appeared in New York's Union Square. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Rob Pruitt's The Andy Monument (2011) is a statue of Andy Warhol made from chromed, glass-fibre-reinforced polyester resin and stood atop a concrete plinth. His Warhol shares the square with monuments to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Mohandas Gandhi, and is the Warhol of the 1970s and 80s: big glasses, shirt, tie and casual blazer, a Bloomingdale 'medium brown bag' in his right hand and a Polaroid camera slung around his neck. Read more...

Image: Rob Pruitt's The Andy Monument (2011) commissioned by the Public Art Fund, NY

Recalling and revisiting history in downtown Brooklyn

This link takes you to Benjamin Sutton's review of TOTAL RECALL, the Public Art Fund exhibition of five commissioned sculptures presented at the MetroTech Commons, downtown Brooklyn. The works in TOTAL RECALL are by Martin Basher, Zipora Fried, Sam Moyer, Matt Sheridan Smith and Kevin Zucker.

Image: Zipora Fried, Armchair (2010). Photograph by James Ewing

Celebrating the launch of Martin Basher's new work in NYC

We are hosting a function tonight (from 6.00pm) to celebrate the launch of Martin Basher's artwork in the Public Art Fund exhibition Total Recall, which features five large-scale sculptural commissions. We will also be screening installation views of the work in situ at the MetroTech Plaza in Brooklyn.

Image: Martin Basher's Minimal Consumption/Reflective Sublime/Aspirational Sunset Art, MetroTech Plaza, NYC