public art

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/12/2020
  

  A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero?

  "Ms. Hambling’s sculptural woman — perched above a plunge of mountainous form — seems to embody the epic saga that so many women have endured for their voices to be heard."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/21/2020
  

  Searching for America's 1930s Post Office Murals: A Photoessay

  Photographer Justin Hamel is about a quarter of the way to photographing 1,200 New Deal-era murals in post offices across the United States.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/22/2020
  

  Artists Helped Lift America out of the Great Depression. Could that Happen Again?

  Art historian Jody Patterson, an expert on public art in the 1930s, discusses the legacy of the New Deal's support for the arts and efforts to establish art as a public good. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/31/2020
  

  Christo, Famous For His Monumental Works Of Art, Dies At 84

  Christo's works played off of their environment in cities around the world.

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• 4/21/19
  

  How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber

  Without government funding, it would have been almost impossible for this alternative narrative to gain much of a foothold in the public imagination.