Announcing our 2019 theme, New Codes which will explore how we can work together with artists and communities to forge new precedents for the who, what, where, and why of public art.
Public Art and Public Perception
From participant to champion: newest board member
OUR 2017 GRATITUDE LIST
"A vision of what women artists can do for our city..."
New contemporary art for the Charles River Esplanade
Introducing Ann Lewis
For Boston: A Year of Public Art
Site-specific public art is the lens through which we experience common spaces and grow as a community. In 2017, Chicago is celebrating a Year of Public Art by funding permanent and temporary works, performances, education, and gatherings to promote civic discourse through art. Here's how we think Boston can—must!—have a Year of Public Art.
Valuing art over policy, and action over talk, at the Public Art Network (PAN) pre-conference
Having recently visited Chicago for the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network pre-conference N+T director Kate Gilbert calls on Greater Boston to create bold, temporary projects during the 2016 conference.
It’s understandable how a public art freak from Boston can get cultural envy visiting Chicago. Rich in monumental, plaza-anchoring sculpture and steeped in a history of financial and political backing for the arts, Chicago gives us pause, asks us to look at our challenges, and ultimately calls us to be a bolder, unified Greater Boston.
The Big Bowl of Sunshine at Lawn on D
In an art town as small as Boston, worlds often collide. Recently N+T’s own Kate Gilbert sat down with fellow SMFA alum Thomas Stevenson to discuss his latest project, “Living Room”, commissioned by theLawn on D at Gilbert’s suggestion. The following is an excerpt of the conversation between artist and curator about how “Living Room” came to be, about fear in public spaces, and about learning to be flexible when you come upon big rocks in your tiny sandbox.