CURRENT ISSUE

"New Collaborations" Issue 38 • spring/summer 2008

The inherently collaborative nature of public art can be summed up in the equation: 1+1=3. Artists have expanded the boundaries, engaging with engineers, community organizers, program managers and industries, without compromising the artistic integrity of their work. Today's public artists are exploring new avenues of cooperation and partnerships.

PAR surveys these new trends and weighs in on new findings about the nature of collaboration and the impact of open-source internet communication on public art. A special survey reveals interesting facts about the most intimate kind of collaboration—public artists working with their romantic partners and spouses. Attorney Barbara Hoffman analyzes the legal pitfalls of joint authorship in art. Plus features on Pennsylvania's public art hot spots, international news and recent projects, a bevy of new book reviews, and much more!

• "Crossing New Boundaries" by Joanna Baymiller
• "My Collaborator, My Love" by Jon Spayde
• "A Marriage Made on Earth" by Jane Ingram Allen
• "Service Media: Community as Collaborator" by Stuart Keeler
• "The Great Wide Open: Can the Internet and open-source technology expand the limits of public art?" by Jarret Keene
• "Working Together: Toward a Theory of Collaboration" by Joseph Hart
• ARTIST PAGE featured artist: Helen Lessick

 

NEXT ISSUE

"Between Urban and Rural" Issue 39 • fall/winter 2008

This issue will explore the complex and confounding issues surrounding public art in the suburbs. Guest editor Mason Riddle has secured a sterling lineup of thinkers and practitioners to investigate, confront, even grapple, with the subject:

• Andrew Blauvelt
  curator of design at the Walker Art Center
• Todd Bressi
  urban planner and public art consultant
• Ronald Lee Fleming
  author of numerous books on public art and placemaking
• Cynthia Nitikin
  vice president of Projects for Public Spaces
• Richard Florida
  nationally recognized analyst of urban/suburban demographics and author of Rise of the Creative Class
• James Wines
  internationally recognized architect and creative director of SITE
• Bruce Wright
  architect and editor of Fabric Architecture

As always, PAR features a provocative selection of book reviews, including James Archer’s Architecture and the Suburbs. Our featured state is Colorado, with a survey of new projects and peek at public art responses to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. And of course there’s international news and recent projects, an artist’s page, and more!