https://artcritical.com/2010/11/07/public-art-julie-mehretu/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://artcritical.com/2010/11/07/public-art-julie-mehretu/#comment-11773 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:49:51 +0000 https://artcritical.com/?p=11986#comment-11773 Banksy, really??

]]> https://artcritical.com/2010/11/07/public-art-julie-mehretu/#comment-2098 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:40:06 +0000 https://artcritical.com/?p=11986#comment-2098 Thanks for a fine piece–it makes makes its moves very lithely. But I object to your statement that “it is essential for an artist to control the reception of her work”–surely that’s impossible, though one always tries? Instead we could paraphrase Marx: Artists create their reception, but not just as they please. More broadly, I wonder if you haven’t pinned your important and interesting considerations on public art to a work that isn’t really a piece of public art at all (just as Barnes’s Matisse commission wasn’t): As the conditions of its viewing were meant to impress on you, the mural’s placement is more private than public. The only people who are supposed to see it straight-on are those inside the company; and when inside, one is not to make what Kant called public use of reason–inside, one’s reason has been privatized.

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