Suzanne Lacy, Public art, and the future of humanity

From the desk of Sam Rosenblum,

In her book Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, author Suzanne Lacy writes:

"Public art has become a highly competitive alternaive gallery system in which artists are thrust into contact with a broad and diversified audience, each group bringing its own contributions to the debate"

This is probably the best kind of art. Straight from the artist to the observer. Public art is out there on the streets where the people are. This reminds me of a story... I was in Paris, and my friends and I had planned to go to the Louvre. When we arrived we were told that they were closed for the day.

All of that art inside that building. Some of the most famous works of legends of the human civilization, and I couldn't step foot in it. Instead we "bike rided" as one of my friends insisted on saying, all around town using the Velib bike-share program.

Public art like Lacy described here is much more aligned with what I see as the direction humanity will venture towards. Power through equality, equality through understanding.

SR