Public Art Review Issue 55 • Fall/Winter 2016 • Volume 28 • Number 1
DEPARTMENTS 9
PUBLISHER’S NOTE Stepping into Leadership
THERESA SWEETLAND
EDITOR’S NOTE Mastery and Meaning
KAREN OLSON
12 PROJECTS WE LOVE Select recent works KAREN OLSON + JEN DOLEN 12 New York: Work No. 2630, Understanding
14 Wroclaw, Poland: The Infinite Green
15 Rome: Triumphs and Laments 16
16 London: The Hive
18 Catania, Sicily: Street Art Silos
TOP: Photo by Andrea Buccella. MIDDLE: Photo by Melissa Kelly. BOTTOM: Photo courtesy Art Shanty Projects.
20 Las Vegas: Seven Magic Mountains 21
Global: Space Invaders
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New York: Flows Two Ways
23 Worldwide: Intrude 24 Spain: Truck Art Project 26
Paris + Corsica: The Lunar Cycle + Installation on Bastion de France
28 IN THE FIELD News, views, and ideas 32
28 Temporary Inspires Permanent: The fate of objectors
ROB GARRETT
32 The Art Department: The U.S. Dept. of Arts & Culture
JON SPAYDE
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Q&A: Theresa Sweetland of Forecast Public Art
KAREN OLSON
72 ON LOCATION Global reports
72 Dialing for Wisdom: Candy Chang in Philadelphia
AMELIA FOSTER
77 Going with the Flow: Los Angeles’s first biennial
ANGELLA D’AVIGNON
82 A Concrete Rebirth: Alberto Burri’s Sicilian land art
MELISSA CHEMAM
86 BOOKS Publications and reviews JON SPAYDE
Marina Abramovic, Louise Nevelson, Radical Seafaring
JEN DOLEN
ANNA RENKEN
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93 AT LARGE Ties That Bind: How I spent my summer vacation
JACK BECKER
96 LAST PAGE Switching Perception: eL Seed in Cairo
JEN DOLEN