Managing Public Art

(3 Credits)

Contemporary artists have redefined public art's boundaries, often challenging conventional ideas and testing limits of expression. Public art interacts with urban life and history. Memorials, a related art form, highlight lost or difficult histories. Arts administrators oversee the process for situating art in public spaces and ensuring projects adhere to local laws and policy. Students explore political, ideological, ethical and other issues in creating and experiencing public art and memorials, using New York City and international examples for comparison. Students submit analyses of historically significant and new public art projects in New York City and synthesize all they learn into a proposal for a site-specific public art project.