Dispatch: inSITE97

San Diego and Tijuana lnSlTE97 was the third in a series of binational exhibitions of art in public places that has operated at a high order of magnitude since its inception in 1992… see the print version for the full review.

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Dispatch: Artfront

Philadelphia Jeffry Faust and Ray Young, Post and Beam, 1997. Mixed-media installation. One window at a time, Philadelphia is being transformed. Where once graffiti reigned as the dominant art form, a different vision now confronts those who by chance or design find themselves encountering some very different marks on the city’s facade.

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Dispatch: Mugger Music

New York Nick Crowe, Graham Parker, Ian Rawlinson, Mugger Music (detail), 1997. Traditionally, public sculpture has been concerned with the search for an appropriateness between an object and a specified civic environment. In Britain at least, a broadening of debates about the nature of public space and some enlightened moments in the allocation of public

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