The Muse Down Below

Fitzpatrick, Tracy
Art and the Subway: New York Underground
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
The other night at dinner, my young friend, the actor, was crowing about his newfound identity as a New Yorker. Someone asked him if he could recall exactly when he felt at home in the city. “It was when I finally understood [...]

The “Other” Art at Lincoln Center

Riley, Charles A.
Art at Lincoln Center: The Public Art and List Print and Poster Collections
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
We all know of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, but have you ever experienced Lincoln Center for the Visual Arts? If not, I recommend a tour of the campus, where to the [...]

Public Speaking

Finkelpearl, Tom
Dialogues in Public Art
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001
At the end of my street, a towering American Civil War memorial overlooks the river and New Jersey beyond. The local kids use its lower plaza as a skateboard park. They don’t look up at the names of the heroes it memorializes as they careen wildly down [...]