Tag: Year of Public Art

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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…