More Art in the Public Eye

“More Art in the Public Eye contextualizes the evolution of socially engaged art practice that has gained much momentum in the last decades. This anthology addresses the impact such work has had on society in relationship to the complex issues facing our species, other sentient beings, and the planet. It throws down the gauntlet to artists, writers, thinkers, and activists, encouraging and inspiring us all to be fearless as we address the truly urgent conversations of the twenty-first century.” - Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and author of Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production

“More Art spans categories: from intimate social engagement within one neighborhood to all-encompassing, citywide interventions. This book does the same: I love the close-up accounts of specific art projects on the one hand and, on the other, the broad, historical, and contextualizing frame provided by highly accomplished art historians. This is an invaluable guide to projects large and small and an explanation of how we have arrived at the current moment of intersectional art practices.” - Carin Kuoni, Director, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School

“Published on the occasion of More Art's fifteenth anniversary, More Art in the Public Eye brings together discursive documents of its unique approach to the ever-evolving field of public art, one that synthesizes and overlaps with socially engaged art, community-based practices, and at times, artistic activism. More Art's critically engaged form of art-in-public-space transcends the categories and limitations of public art—which has so often been instrumentalized for commercial and political ends—by cultivating and facilitating cultural projects that are nuanced, artist-driven, and sensitive to community, place, and time.” - Sara Reisman, Executive and Artistic Director, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

"More Art in the Public Eye centers art and artists in marginalized communities in the urban landscape of New York City and highlights the work that puts a spotlight on issues and problems relevant to the communities that should be of greater concern to all. Valuable not only for the addition of diverse artists in collections but also for the addition of different perspectives on art outside the gallery space and at the intersection of architecture and urban planning, More Art in the Public Eye should be included in every academic art and design library collection." - Kai Alexis Smith, ARLIS/NA