Book review:
Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy, edited by Sierra Rooney, Jennifer Wingate, and Harriet F. Senie, (London: Bloomsbury, 2021) for Sculpture Journal, Volume 31.1, March 2022, pg. 113-117, Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2022.31.1.09.
Public Art Dialogue's Panel at CAA 2022: Notions of Value in Public Art
Chairs: Tola C. Porter, Washington University in St. Louis, Leslie S. Markle, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
A discourse regarding the value of public art may be framed by the Marxian terms use value and exchange value. Use value pertains to the human needs that public art fulfills such as inspiring individual curiosity and wonder, engendering civic engagement and community pride, and fostering a shared cultural heritage. Exchange value, being monetarily based, defines public art by the dollar amount it would fetch on the market and contributes to claims of public art’s role in economic revitalization. When the focus on exchange value eclipses public art’s harder-to-define, yet more enriching use value, public audiences suffer. If public art is a sign of society’s investment in creating public value, in what ways can we work to define, explore, and recenter the human use value of public art?
Public Art Engagement During a Global Pandemic, March 2020
Panel discussion sponsored by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
What does public art mean while we shelter in place? What can it tell us about who we are during a global pandemic? A live online conversation delves into the planning, preservation, and opportunities for engagement surrounding public art. The discussion focuses on artworks at Washington University and Laumeier Sculpture Park, and will include ideas about public art's ability to engage with current events.
“Reanimating the Possibilities of Affect in Henry Moore’s The Arch, 1980.” Public Art Dialogue, no. 2 (Nov 2017): 111-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/21502552.2017.1343604