Talk:Public art

Source
Perhaps this article would be a good source? / ƒETCH COMMS  /  18:38, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
 * A source for which part? --Hellocatfood — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellocatfood (talk • contribs) 17:33, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

These folks
just showed up here. http://www.publicartarchive.org and I am undecided as to whether the link to them is spam or not. Any other opinions? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 15:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

question
Does public art include work placed in a museum,? Does it include work place on the grounds of an outdoor museum? The examples here would seem to indicate that these are not includuded, but perhaps this should be discussed, with sources.  DGG ( talk ) 23:07, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Our lede says, " The term is sometimes also applied to include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings." - so I would say that art pieces om a museum grounds would be considered as public art. To me, indoors art, though in a public museum, would not qualify. Carptrash (talk) 23:36, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * then you consider all outdoor art to be public art? Are there any sources which say this, or make the distinction that you do? (I can obviously think of borderline cases, such as the annual installations on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I Are the sculptures in the Museum of Modern Art's wall-enclosed but unroofed sculpture garden public art, and do some of them lose that nature when they are brought in for the winter? But there will be borderline cases for any definition, so this is not a critical problem.  DGG ( talk ) 05:00, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

History of public art
I am including in the article a chapter about the history of public art. The text is from Federica Martini, Public Art in Mobile A2K Methodology guide, 2002 under cc by-sa. The text was written as an introduction to the meaning of public art for the project ''Mobile A2K: Culture and Safety in Africa. Documenting and assessing the impact of cultural events and public art on urban safety''. I think it can also provide a better international frame for the article; at the moment the article Public art is quite US-centric. --Iopensa (talk) 12:50, 5 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi there - I'm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Thomas_(artist_and_filmmaker). I'm keen to find some citations and links for this - Plus has any other editor ever heard of the Vacant lot of Cabbages 1978... 4 years ahead of denes and beuys? • b'art homme 02:54, 19 April 2023 (UTC)->

Definition of public art
I think this definition of public art is very suitable for the article. Maybe it should include also any media. "Public art is a site-specific temporary or permanent artistic intervention located in public and accessible sites. In its more traditional and historical forms, public art corresponds to artworks staged outside museum and galleries spaces, such as monuments, memorials, statues, outdoor sculptures, and murals".--Iopensa (talk) 14:12, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

"I think we should start with a definition of what is art? and then define public vs. private spaces, as well as a general framework of ownership and types." (i.e. is art that is bequeathed to the public fall under the definition of "public art"? or is art that is free to public for viewing and screening but property of an independent entity such as governments, museums, family foundations, or galleries, libraries still considered "public art"?) Then, users can build on the agreed framework and build out each grouping with sub-categories and specific examples using citations from both history and culture to highlight important cases. -gw — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwang0 (talk • contribs) 17:56, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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Neutrality tag
Added as it seems like a few public art organizations may be duking it out here for mentions int he article. Michell Williamson is cited a half dozen times, for example. There is something fishy going on if you look at the many recent rewrites.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 21:07, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It seems that the director of one of the organizations made some significant changes a while back to prioritize their org and writings. They recently changed their user name, but are the same editor. See and  I think those edits may have disrupted the neutrality of the article. Netherzone (talk) 16:43, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * There are:
 * 12 (10+2) links to a single page on the Public Arts in Public Places site, as well as an un-referenced paragraph regarding the organization in the Online documentation section.
 * 5 links to a single page of on Project for Public Spaces. (Its entry, Project for Public Spaces, appears to fail WP:ORG).
 * Barte (talk) 18:04, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The links seems excessive; the PPiPP one seems like the opinion/research of the org/director. There have been many books, essays and articles which could be used to clean up the referencing. Patricia C. Phillips, Anne Pasternak, Tom Finklepearl, Malcolm Miles, Ann Dempsey, WJT Mitchell, Mary Jane Jacob, Peter Weibel, Arlene Raven, Lucy Lippard and many others have written substantially on public art. I noticed that the List of public art in Los Angeles also needs clean up. Netherzone (talk) 20:17, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I think that references to books, essays and articles from reliable secondary sources would be preferable to the pair of websites. (Meanwhile, I tagged Project for Public Spaces for notability. Since 2006, 4 sentences & 2 superficial refs. The depth of its website does suggest that better sources might exist, but I couldn't find any.) Barte (talk) 21:01, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll start working on this, as I have several books in my home library. I also noticed that the first citation is somewhat dubious - it's to "Google Art & Culture" site, but it states it's an Oxford University Press publication, but as far as I know, Google is a search engine and definitely not a book published by Oxford U press. Not sure if there's an affiliation there. I'll find a better ref for the Google citation as well. Netherzone (talk) 21:50, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I've done some cleaning up, and added numerous reliable sources as citations. Am wondering about the Controversy section. It seems too long, and I'm thinking it needs only two or three examples, such as Serra's Tilted Arc (there's a LOT of references), and possibly something more recent like Sam Durant's Gallows piece that was at the Walker Art Center although I'm not certain it "qualifies" as public art since it was in the Walker's sculpture garden, not out on the streets. And also a work by a woman artist would add balance. Also, I tagged the article with the 'Globalize' maintenance tag, since most of the article covers the US and UK only. Any thoughts on how we can broaden the scope? This initiative, for example, comes to mind Public Art in Africa. Feedback please when someone finds a moment. Netherzone (talk) 15:32, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * nice work, it seems to be a great improvement! ThatMontrealIP (talk) 15:35, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

The concerns leading to the neutrality tag seem to have been resolved. Any objections to removing it? Barte (talk) 06:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No objections. It's on my to-do list to globalize. Also, any thoughts on whether Sam Durant's Gallows piece at the Walker Art Center qualifies as public art for the Controversies section? Netherzone (talk) 15:40, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * re: Gallows - As it was installed in the Walker Art Center Garden, which is free to the public, no tickets required, and as it was deemed controversial by several sources and eventually buried by tribal elders--I think it's a good candidate for the section. Barte (talk) 00:43, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Investigate in public art and visit a neighbourhood write briefly note on your experience of visiting neighbourhood
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Older art
All of the pictures are of recent works. I think the article needs at least one example of older public art that has been going up for centuries, such as sculptures of kings, queens generals etc. There probably more of these kinds of art in the world than of the recent, more abstract kinds. Kdammers (talk) 21:27, 9 March 2024 (UTC)