Tag: Chicago Public Art

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  A Loss of Permanence: Monumentality in the 21st Century

  30 October 2017

  public things, Sculptural Things Blog

  Chicago Public Art, Contemporary, Monumentality, Monuments, Public art, Temporary

  Presenting a paper recently on the monumental sculptural projects of Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy, as a part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s wonderful symposium The Course of Empires: American-Italian Cultural Relations, 1770-1980, (my presentation and the entire proceedings are viewable here, if you are so inclined), I drew upon two…

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  Public Sculpture is Having a Moment in the Midwest

  10 August 2017

  exhibitions, public things, Sculptural Things Blog

  Chicago, Chicago Public Art, ChicagoPicasso, Floating Museum, Milwaukee, PicassoIs50, Public art, public sculpture, Sculpture Milwaukee, Year of Public Art

  On August 8, my beloved, complex, imperfect city of Chicago did the civic/art version of an historical battlefield reenactment…sort of. The event marked the fiftieth anniversary of the public unveiling on August 15, 1967 of Picasso’s untitled metal behemoth, now known simply as “The Picasso” (see Google Maps) or in its updated 2017 social media…