Sculpture in Gotham by Michele H. Bogart

Author:Michele H. Bogart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

The waterfall from the art project New York City Waterfalls at Governors Island, August 30, 2008, by Olafur Eliasson, in collaboration with the Public Art Fund.

Isa Genzken, Two Orchids, March 1–August 28, 2016, stainless steel, Doris Freedman Plaza, Fifth Avenue at 60th Street.

Public art as entertainment and enhancement for purposes of growth was an instrument that largely began during the Edward I. Koch administration (1978–89), but quickened under David Dinkins and especially Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. These aspirations became more urgent in the aftermath of the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations deemed it urgent to restore confidence, and to restore tourism, investment, and development to their previous levels; all were crucial to the city’s ability to provide essential services.

Concerned about restoring the city to some semblance of normalcy and maintaining New York City’s centrality in the global tourist economy, the Bloomberg administration, along with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Department of Parks, Police Department, and the Public Art Fund, among other groups and agencies, facilitated the staging of two enormous temporary art spectacles: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates in Central Park in February 2005, and Olafur Eliasson’s New York Waterfalls (June 26, 2008–October 13, 2008). Bloomberg, a collector and former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, along with his chief Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris, the former Executive Director of the Art Commission of New York City, put the full weight of the Mayor’s Office behind the enterprises, and took the intertwinement of public art and economic development enterprise to a new level.2

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