22 Facts About Public art

Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process.

Public art is visually and physically accessible to the public; it is installed in public space in both outdoor and indoor settings.

Public art seeks to embody public or universal concepts rather than commercial, partisan or personal concepts or interests.

Independent art created or staged in or near the public realm lacks official or tangible public sanction has not been recognized as part of the public art genre, however this attitude is changing due to the efforts of several street artists.

Common characteristics of public art are public accessibility, public realm placement, community involvement, public process ; these works can be permanent or temporary.

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When public art is installed on privately owned property, general public access rights still exist.

Public art is characterized by site specificity, where the artwork is "created in response to the place and community in which it resides" and by the relationship between its content and the public.

Public art is often characterized by community involvement and collaboration.

Public art is often created and provided within formal "art in public places" programs that can include community arts education and art performance.

Some public art is planned and designed for stability and permanence.

New Deal Public art programs were intended to develop national pride in American culture while avoiding addressing the faltering economy.

Approach to public art radically changed during the 1970s, following the civil rights movement's claims on public space, the alliance between urban regeneration programs and artistic efforts at the end of the 1960s, and revised ideas of sculpture.

Public art acquired a status beyond mere decoration and visualization of official national histories in public space.

Sustainable art is a challenge to respond the needs of an opening space in public.

Some public art is designed to encourage direct hands-on interaction.

Examples include public art that contain interactive musical, light, video, or water components.

Rather than metaphorically reflecting social issues, new genre public art strove to explicitly empower marginalized groups while maintaining aesthetic appeal.

An example was curator Mary Jane Jacob's 1993 public art show "Culture in Action" that investigated social systems though engagement with audiences that typically did not visit traditional art museums.

Term "curated public art" refers to public art produced by a community or public who "commissions" a work in collaboration with a curator-mediator.

Online databases of local and regional public art emerged in the 1990s and 2000s in tandem with the development of web-based data.

The Institute for Public Art, based in the UK, maintains information about public art on six continents.

WikiProject Public art project began in 2009 and strove to document public art around the globe.