Many of these are favorite film locations for current directors, and their restaurants, lounges, pools, and
other public spaces draw chic modern crowds and contemporary starlets.
Not exact matches
Urbanists have for some time now been
drawing attention to the «over-scripting» of
public space in modern urban regeneration schemes, so that all conflicts and loose ends are designed out of the development, and people are subtly organised and choreographed into patterns of use and timetables decided by
others.
The sources we
draw upon are personal and
public: some artists in the show address the history of
space, while
others speak to a more recent past.
The wide - ranging responses enacted throughout Lower Manhattan highlighted in the exhibition include the institutionally - supported erection and eventual removal of Richard Serra's large - scale sculpture Tilted Arc; Keith Haring's radiant subway
drawings in the
space of everyday transit and their lasting impression on street art culture; and Jenny Holzer's conceptual texts focusing on social and political commentary wheat pasted in heavily populated
public spaces, among
others.
Within my art practice, I
draw from my experiences of how I inhabit
public and private
spaces and rely on research from
other South Asian scholars interested in gender, urban
space and the right to everyday life.