PUBLIC ART REVIEW

Published by Forecast Public Art from 1989 – 2020, Public Art Review was the world’s leading public art magazine for over three decades. Across 59 issues, this international magazine offers an inspiring collection of articles, insights, ideas and commentary about art in public spaces.

Learn more about Forecast’s public art storytelling as we search the world to uplift creative community-focused solutions to critical issues and amplify voices in the field.

GOODBYE PUBLIC ART REVIEW, HELLO FORWARD

**With the launch of FORWARD, we closed our magazine Public Art Review after 31 wonderful years.**

While we hope you’ll join us and enjoy FORWARD, we invite you to continue to find inspiration from PAR on our site. Explore curated content covering topics ranging from Agriculture + Food to Workforce Development; you’ll find the full list on the Explore More section below. For further inspiration, browse select Projects We Love, and dive deep into the past two issues, 58 and 59. With the retirement of the print publication we closed back issue sales; you can flip through digitized PDFs of past issues on Forecast’s Issuu page; a preview of issue 59 is linked below.

Fans of PAR‘s celebrated Projects We Love and Recent Projects sections will want to visit our Public Art Now special collections in each issue of FORWARD, featuring leading voices sharing public art of the moment, starting with issue 2.

READ A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR ON CLOSING PUBLIC ART REVIEW

FINAL ISSUE

#59 (2020)

Redesigning How We Live Together

The 59th issue of Public Art Review is filled with articles about how artists and design practitioners are inviting us all—in this time of division—to focus on justice, inclusion, and human dignity. It includes feature articles about the new professionals working at the intersection of art, design, and equity; the winner and commended projects of the 2019 International Award for Public Art; an on-the-ground story about arts and culture in an economically and environmentally devastated Puerto Rico; and the work of artist-activists in Minnesota addressing water justice issues. The issue also includes articles about two communities using theater in different ways to envision their futures; environmental artist Mary Miss and social ecologist Adrian Cerezo discussing their collaboration and infusing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into public art; an interview with Victoria Jones of The CLTV and The CMPLX in Memphis; and the work of other visionary artists and communities.

VIEW PAST ISSUES

PUBLIC ART REVIEW ONLINE

Flip through digital issues of the retired print magazine

Click on the banner below to start browsing Public Art Review issue 59, which is expandable to full screen via the brackets in the banner’s lower right corner.
To browse more digital issues, click Read More, or visit Forecast’s Issuu page to access every available issue.

EXPLORE MORE

Explore curated content from past issues of Public Art Review

Agriculture + Food

Economic Development

Education + Youth

Energy + Environment

Health

Housing

Immigration

Public Policy

Public Safety

Racial Justice

Transportation

Workforce Development

PROJECTS WE LOVE

Explore what’s possible with public art through this curated content from our popular Projects We Love content in past issues of Public Art Review. We search the world for projects we love — projects that inspire and make communities better places to live.