Public art

'Dancing Scarecrow' by Angelo J. Sinisi is made of brightly painted sheet metal.
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'Dancing Scarecrow' by Angelo J. Sinisi is made of brightly painted sheet metal. Photo: Berkshire Eagle.

The Berkshire Eagle reports, in "'Stuffed shirts': Contemporary scarecrows by local artists on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum," about a public art contest featuring scarecrows. Given the fact that their region still is agricultural, it's nicely relevant.

Not that I am into freeways, but the Toronto Star reports, in "Where you see a freeway, they see a gallery: City learns to make space for art Artstage project a bold first step," makes a good point about what I call achieving multiple simultaneous objectives from public assets and public investments.

The Star article has a sidebar listing " 10 art-worthy spaces" and goes on to state that "Some areas — if not most — should be designed to allow a systematic rotation of different work at the site on a regular basis, giving more artists the opportunity to do public work."

That's the same point I made in the recent blog entry, You gotta have art #1.

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