Book Description
Thanks to the bold vision of the Public Art Fund, for over twenty-five years New York City plazas, buildings, parks and streets have been the sites of astonishing public art installations - from Jeff Koons's gigantic puppy, made of flowering plants, in the Rockefeller Center, to Mariko Mori's dreamy spaceship-shaped sculpture, Wave UFO, on Madison Avenue. Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund - its title a reclamation of the term Plop Art, sometimes used to refer to public art that is considered unrelated to its setting - features projects by forty-five internationally acclaimed artists whose installations were made possible by the Public Art Fund, one of the most innovative supporters of contemporary art in America. Presented here are works by Vanessa Beecroft, Rachel Whiteread, Christian Boltanski, Tony Oursler, Roxy Paine, Takashi Murakami, Louise Bourgeois, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Nam June Paik, Juan Mu–oz and Pipilotti Rist, among others. Plop examines the diverse ways in which artists have created a participatory experience of contemporary art in public spaces, and documents the changing city and the evolution of what it means for art to be public.
About the author
Tom Eccles has been Director of the Public Art Fund since 1996. Anne Wehr is Communications Director of the Public Art Fund. Jeff Kastner writes regularly about contemporary art for The New York Times, ArtNews and other publications.
