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working girl; Nina Katchadourian brings her creative high jinks to lower Manhattan.(Brief article)
Byline: Leslie Camhi
Invite the artist Nina Katchadourian over and you may find her rearranging your books so that their titles spell out secret messages or repairing the spiderwebs in your
garden with red thread. Now the sly conceptualist puts her uncannily intimate spin on the glass-and-steel caverns of lower Manhattan with Office Semaphore, a project presented by the Public Art Fund.
A telescope at street level will be trained on an anonymous office window where an employee will leave discreet signals using a code consisting of pencils, coffee cups, et cetera, to communicate with people below. It's a version of the sign language ships use to convey distress or warning, with phrases like "I require a tug" adapted to describe a typical office day. "I'm attracted to anything nautical," says the 38-year-old Brooklyn-based artist from a cottage ...
- Nina Katchadourian: One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Hudson, Suzanne March 1, 2007 700+ words
...Katchadourian's Public Art Fund project, Office Semaphore, 2006, via its...title suggests, Office Semaphore was an apparatus...of Morse code. Office Semaphore consisted of nothing...should have made her public art project about that...
- PUBLIC ART CONFERENCE SET FOR SEPT. 24-25 IN COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 29, 2008 700+ words
...Council is partnering with Iowa West Public Art (IWPA), an initiative of the Iowa...Arts Council to host the 2008 IA/NE Public Art Networking Conference Sept. 24-25...organizations and communities engaged in public art projects, and for others wanting to...
- The administration of public art on state university campuses.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society Mankin, Lawrence D. March 22, 2002 700+ words
Public art can serve multiple purposes for a university...Given these purposes and the significance public art can have for a campus, it is appropriate...approaches universities take in administering public art programs on their campuses. The issues...
- The welcome pole: public art, process, and controversy.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society Lidman, Russell Bisesi, Michael January 1, 2005 700+ words
Public art can be a challenge even to jurisdictions...jurisdictions that only rarely purchase public art. In this article, we present the case...storage. A robust case can be made for public art. For example, as the focus in political...
- The Practice of Public Art.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Art Monthly Usherwood, Paul September 1, 2009 700+ words
The Practice of Public Art Paul Usherwood The Practice of Public Art, eds Cameron Cartiere and Shelly Willis, Routledge...pounds sterling], 978 0 4159629 27. 'When did "public art" become akin to a dirty word?' I was encouraged...
- Call for populist public art.(Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Afterimage Chung, Nogin July 1, 2009 700+ words
Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism By Cher...2005) by Christo and Jean-Claude, public art has ignited heated discussions sometimes...in the pages of Cher Krause Knight's Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism. Here...
- Cooperation with DPW helps position Public Art.
- Magazine article from: Public Works Nigh, Robin November 1, 2002 700+ words
...ordinance that requires dollars to be set aside for public art. Public art programs across the nation are frequently comprised...city park, municipal building, and/or plaza. Public art directly corresponds to our local environment...
- Art: live and in public. (public art projects)(Report From Japan)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Heartney, Eleanor March 1, 1997 700+ words
Public art is thriving despite Japan's generally grim economy...However, one aspect of contemporary art--the public-art sector--is doing just fine. In fact, public art in Japan could almost be characterized as booming...
