About 20 years ago I got interested in Chicago’s public art. There seemed to be a lot of it downtown. I wondered both about the art itself and the quantity of it. The sequence of events in my evolving interest in the topic is murky now. I looked for good Continue Reading
Henry Moore
Chicago’s Lost, Altered and Disfigured Public Art, #1
Chicago has an astonishing collection of public art, numbering in the thousands. Stories about our public art objects abound. About some objects and artists little is known. For yet others, the prevailing stories are simply wrong. When we start telling the stories of our public art, the conversation inevitably turns Continue Reading