Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy

(NYTimes) - ART adores a vacuum. That’s why styles, genres and mediums left for dead by one generation are often revived by subsequent ones.
In the 1960s and ’70s public sculpture was contemporary art’s foremost fatality — deader than painting actually. The corpse generally took the form of corporate, pseudo-Minimalist plop art. It was ignored by the general public and despised by the art world. Continued

Photo: Sculpture, Bel Air, Maryland. Courtesy of Nightening.