Public Art

[sufi]

anish kapoor temenos

dragons gate? tower hamlets

lime house link Nigel Hall

lime house link zadok ben-david's "restless dream" circle

The Ishinki Touchstone

'Swirl' by Colin Rose, Baltic Quays, Gateshead

The White Horse at Ebbsfleet designed by Mark Wallinger.

Martin Jennings's Betjeman bronze,

The Gatekeeper gorbals

michael pinsky lost-o

oost Van Santen's Lighted Lady of Barking

Pasmore Apollo Pavilion

BOAB 1 1999 lucien simon

Paul Day's critically panned St Pancras bronze, The Meeting Place,

The Brixton Heron

Turning the Place Over Richard Wilson

Fulcrum (1987) by Richard Serra,

Liz Peden - Gorbals Boys

Alex Hartley's Nowhereisland

 

[sufi]

all from this highly entertaining tufton st piece

https://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/_files/ugd/e42793_8f705e3a68dd4f0493be44d62129867a.pdf

 

[martin]

Ughh, I dunno...a lot of it looks shit to me. Always hated what they did to St Pancras Station full stop, let alone that statue. Didn't someone vandalise the Gorbals boys a while ago? There should at least be some local consultation before they commission this stuff.

There was a hoo-ha about that statue of Mary Wollstonecraft in Newington Green, where she looks like an Action Man being blasted skyward by a burst sewer pipe. Nobody could even do a decent job of recreating one of the most interesting ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair

 

[sufi]

all from this highly entertaining tufton st piece

https://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/_files/ugd/e42793_8f705e3a68dd4f0493be44d62129867a.pdf

that report is from 2012 and castigates public art basically for bureaucracy and isolation from "gallery art", it's very opinionated about the monuments and i enjoyed searching up the images

so i wondered what's up since 2012, an also what @owen has to say on the topic
anyone got this?

Public Art - Cornerhouse Publications

Exploring the relationship between public art and its role within urban regeneration, this new title by graphic designer and artist Scott King brings together a series of works inspired by government ideologies in post-industrial Britain.

www.cornerhousepublications.org

 

[woops]

i like richard serra one

 

[sufi]

so few replies to this fantastic thread how come

 

[william kent]

so few replies to this fantastic thread how come

I left a good tag at the time.

 

[Murphy]

We have a ….. sky mirror

Sky Mirror at Nottingham Playhouse - Visit Nottinghamshire

Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror is a must see piece of art, located at Nottingham Playhouse within the city centre.

www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk

 

[sufi]

i think dissensus should carry out an unannounced inspection visit to check this out up close

Abigail Fallis - The Line

This sculpture by British artist Abigail Fallis consists of 22 shopping trolleys in the shape of a double helix. It is installed on The Line on the River Lea in East London. The work was commissioned by a supermarket chain in 2003 on the 50th anniversary of American biologist James Watson and...

the-line.org

 

[sufi]

I left a good tag at the time.

thank you, i have matched your low pun and now you must raise the stakes

 

[Murphy]

22, so close to 23

 

[sufi]

We have a ….. sky mirror

Sky Mirror at Nottingham Playhouse - Visit Nottinghamshire

Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror is a must see piece of art, located at Nottingham Playhouse within the city centre.

www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk

that sure does look underwhelming

i saw a great big heron flying a couple of metres over my plot at the allotment earlier,
i was thinking they must be able to spot the sky mirrored in bodies of earthbound water as they flap about in their leisurely way

 

[william kent]

thank you, i have matched your low pun and now you must raise the stakes

I fold.

 

[A Liniment's Evil Work]

Oh, I was thinking more of a "mirror on the ceiling" kind of thing like everyone in the whole city just openly admitted to being all pervs, and then thought they might as well do the next logical thing.

 

[shakahislop]

there was a massive digital clock on the east river in 2018ish which gave you no clue as to what it was counting down. just a massive clock which was counting down from idk 400 days. it had gone after the pandemic.

the 9/11 memorial is one of the bits of art that i've got the most out of over the years. it hits hard even surrounded by happy tourists. the way that the water washes down an unseen hole, the relentlessness of it, it really does something to me, expresses the utter pointlessness of the attack. it's a serious and heavy thing.

i've always liked this one outside the UN. not exactly subtle and a bit cheesy, but that suits the UN.

 

[sufi]

there was a massive digital clock on the east river in 2018ish which gave you no clue as to what it was counting down. just a massive clock which was counting down from idk 400 days. it had gone after the pandemic.

the 9/11 memorial is one of the bits of art that i've got the most out of over the years. it hits hard even surrounded by happy tourists. the way that the water washes down an unseen hole, the relentlessness of it, it really does something to me, expresses the utter pointlessness of the attack. it's a serious and heavy thing.

i've always liked this one outside the UN. not exactly subtle and a bit cheesy, but that suits the UN.

i went to the holocaust museum in berlin recently, that has some powerful architectural/monumental/sculptural art dunno how that compares to the 911 memorial

i do like the berlin alexplatz atomic clock, such soviet retro