Culture Making Articles items tagged public art

Reap what you sew

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate: ?Once a month, artist Michael Swaine sets up an outdoor sewing machine in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and offers free on-the-spot clothing repairs for people in the neighborhood—a particularly friendly and useful form of public art.?

"Mending for the People," filmed and edited by Andrew Galli, 30 December 2009 :: via MetaFilter

Security wall mural, Sadr City

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate
: ?AP caption: "A painter decorates a security wall sealing off the southern section of the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008." I love the particular choice of scenery, which I'd guess is as foreign to Baghdadis as ... well, as this particular type of wall itself.?

AP Photo by Karim Kadim, from "Scenes from Iraq," The Big Picture, 3 September 2008

The El, by Daniel Hauben

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate
: ?One of six colored-glass panels at the Freeman Street Station in the Bronx. The medium is a sturdier version of stained glass, with inch-thick colored segments joined together with epoxy. I love, obviously, the vibrancy of the panels, and the fact that they're a celebration of, basically, the neighborhood just below the station (which you can glimpse through that gap below the partition) -- saying, in effect, this isn't just a way-station on your journey to somewhere else, but a Place in itself.?

panel from "The El", by Daniel Hauben, photo by David Goldman for the New York Times, from "Bronx Artist’s Glass Work Is Recognized," by Sewell Chan, NYTimes.com, 13 August 2008