Art Everywhere: public spaces open up to art

A very special project conceived and created in the United States to open public spaces to art: Art Everywhere US. He tells us about it in this article Cultura Colectiva, an interesting website from Latin America, specifically Mexico.Here is the link to the original, written by Pamela Muñoz Martínez. Below is my translation!

Art Everywhere US is a campaign that celebrates the art of the United States through one hundred of the country’s most significant works. This month, Richard Reed, creator of the project, together with a number of museums, artists, foundations and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, decided to share the history of U.S. art with the public.

Art Everywhere extraordinarily and attractively displays major works in public spaces, such as buses, subways and billboards, with the goal of making people participate and let them see works of art without having to go to a museum.

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

Choosing the works required the participation of the five most important museums in the United States, but the public also got to vote for their favorite masterpieces, coming up with 58, which would then be on display from August 4 to the end of August.

The hundred selected works can be found on the campaign website: they belong to different eras, styles, and historical moments; some were made before, others after the North American Revolution. They range from nineteenth-century landscapes to illustrations and depictions of everyday life from the last quarter of the last century. From paintings from the early twentieth century with an eye toward photography to scenes from the Bible, including the latest avant-gardes of the 1950s, such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, welcoming all similar trends.

The project is designed for the public to be able to reflect on their own role and what art has occupied throughout history, as well as for them to be able to make sense of the interaction between public spaces and art. Art Everywhere US is a campaign that gives back importance to different aspects, such as the place where artworks are displayed; it changes the form and medium by which art can be expressed, starting from the principle of not having to exclusively go to a museum to be able to relate to all that is art.

Below are some images of the project:

Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930

Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984

John Singer Sargent, Gassed (Struck by Gas), 1919

Above: Andy Warhol, Campbell’s soup can, 1964
Below: George Tooker, The Subway, 1950

Charles Wilbert White, Harvest talk (The Harvest), 1953

Chuck Close, Phil, 1969

Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington, c. 1821

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