|
|
| Author |
Message |
dewshine
|
|
Public Art In ann Arbor
| 
Sep 8 01:15 UTC 2003 |
Hello ^-^
I'm wondering what you all think of the public art in Ann Arbor- or in
general. Like "Bubble Gum Alley" ( The alley way next to the State theatre),
all the train murals- grafitti even. which ones do you like best?
Why?
|
| 30 responses total. |
dah
|
|
response 1 of 30:
|
Sep 8 02:29 UTC 2003 |
I like Montreal best.
|
jmsaul
|
|
response 2 of 30:
|
Sep 8 02:30 UTC 2003 |
I like the alley next to the State. But I know the artist, so I may be
biased.
|
dah
|
|
response 3 of 30:
|
Sep 8 02:31 UTC 2003 |
MONTREAL.
You can read about Montreal at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/zionicman
|
gelinas
|
|
response 4 of 30:
|
Sep 8 03:18 UTC 2003 |
I like the whales on Tios, Starry Night on the mattress place on West Stadium
(I think that's where it is; somewhere on West Stadium near Maple, any way),
and the one next to Potbelly Sandwiches on Liberty.
Of course, those are also the ones I see most often.
|
scg
|
|
response 5 of 30:
|
Sep 8 06:28 UTC 2003 |
It's nice that Ann Arbor has public art that's not "art by committee." Here's
what we've got in Berkeley:
http://63.249.162.244/blog/4900/sf/DSCF8840.jpg
|
gelinas
|
|
response 6 of 30:
|
Sep 8 06:31 UTC 2003 |
A tuning fork?
|
gull
|
|
response 7 of 30:
|
Sep 8 15:30 UTC 2003 |
For a *very* low note, I'd guess.
|
tod
|
|
response 8 of 30:
|
Sep 8 16:52 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
happyboy
|
|
response 9 of 30:
|
Sep 8 17:03 UTC 2003 |
*chop*
*chop*
|
tod
|
|
response 10 of 30:
|
Sep 8 18:02 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
polygon
|
|
response 11 of 30:
|
Sep 8 18:06 UTC 2003 |
I like the sculpture in Hanover Square.
I like the bas-reliefs on the county courthouse, and on the LS&A Building.
I'm not that fond of the sculpture on the brick plaza at Fourth Avenue
and Catherine, but I'm glad it's there.
Grafitti: Generally, I don't approve, but there are exceptions. I really
liked seeing "LIONEL" painted on the old Ann Arbor railroad viadicts on
the west edge of downtown, and some of the creative painting seen on
railroad viaducts more recently. I also enjoyed the (now long gone)
hot-pink advice "DEFINE YOURSELF OR BE DEFINED" which used to be in giant
letters across the Warren Road overpass on US-23 north of town.
I have always liked the huge painted author heads on the south side of
Liberty at the corner of State, but they may already be gone by this
writing.
Had I the property and the money to spare, I would have installed a
life-size concrete stegosaurus (head toward downtown) on the spacious lawn
on Jackson Road at the corner of Kenwood, a block past the point where W.
Huron splits into Dexter and Jackson.
At the old Arborland, I always stopped to admire the colored-brick mosaic
work (vertical mural, 7.5 feet wide, 40 feet tall) which was on the west
wall of the west hallway. It showed a tree or vine and various figures
and animals among its branches. There was also a harp with the harp
strings done as darkened mortar joints!
When the building was about to be torn down, I persuaded Marianne Rzepka
of the Ann Arbor News to write a story about it -- the article appeared on
the front page. Several people wrote or called to explain that the mural
was an illustration of the Jack and the Beanstalk story. Numerous ideas
were suggested for saving the mural, including putting it in the new
Ypsilanti library or a downtown Ann Arbor parking structure. In the end,
local builder Joe O'Neal came up with the people and expertise to actually
remove it from the building before demolition. It has been in storage for
several years since then, but O'Neal says he plans to reinstall it at
Kerrytown soon.
|
scg
|
|
response 12 of 30:
|
Sep 8 18:17 UTC 2003 |
re 6 and 7:
The Berkeley tuning fork is supposed to vibrate at "the frequency of
the earth." Since there's a BART (subway) station underneath it, the earth
there vibrates frequently, but I don't think that's really what they had in
mind.
|
tod
|
|
response 13 of 30:
|
Sep 8 18:30 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
gull
|
|
response 14 of 30:
|
Sep 8 18:54 UTC 2003 |
Re #12: Maybe someone should watch it during the next earthquake?
A few years ago I noticed a large amount of Christian graffiti
appearing. Mostly "TRUST JESUS" on overpass columns. This always got
me to wondering about the morality of that kind of thing. Do you have
to hope enough people are converted by the message to make up for the
sin of defacing state property?
There used to be a string of overpasses on US-27 (now US-127) that had
graffiti that said, "I LOVE YOU DAR", "I NEED YOU DAR", etc. I wonder
if she was impressed?
My favorite was the one I saw once that said, "HAS ANYONE SEEN MY
SNUGGLEBUNNY?"
|
rcurl
|
|
response 15 of 30:
|
Sep 8 19:13 UTC 2003 |
The natural frequencies (of at least the lowest harmonics) of the earth
are *much* lower than that of that "tuning fork": it will miss the
main messages and catch only the screams of pain.
|
tod
|
|
response 16 of 30:
|
Sep 8 19:16 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
happyboy
|
|
response 17 of 30:
|
Sep 8 21:43 UTC 2003 |
i enjoyed the human feces fingerpainting on the side of the
laundrymat, until some anti-art person washed it off after a few
months.
|
dewshine
|
|
response 18 of 30:
|
Sep 8 21:58 UTC 2003 |
I like the stencil art the most- the random stencils of bands or people. I'm
not entirely sure why. I'm very fond of the stencils of Victor everywhere.
If you go up to the train tracks by the Big City Cafe' there are some very
cool stencils of pills and matches.
|
happyboy
|
|
response 19 of 30:
|
Sep 9 01:56 UTC 2003 |
my favorite stencil art was the old van parked next to acute
services house that had at least a hundred stencils of moe
howard's head on it.
|
jaklumen
|
|
response 20 of 30:
|
Sep 9 03:11 UTC 2003 |
resp:10 Heh. What's their slogan again, "Have an erotic day"?
|
oval
|
|
response 21 of 30:
|
Sep 9 16:12 UTC 2003 |
hey tod, isn't the lusty lady the one where the dancers unionized?
|
janc
|
|
response 22 of 30:
|
Sep 9 21:01 UTC 2003 |
Re #11: I hadn't heard the mural had been preserved. Joe O'Neal is one of
my favorite Ann Arborites, though I'm only vaguely acquainted with him. My
parent's house was the second building his company ever built and they kept
in touch with him for years. I remember him giving us a tour of the Power
Center while it was under construction.
|
cmcgee
|
|
response 23 of 30:
|
Sep 10 16:37 UTC 2003 |
One of the most amazing pieces of art in Ann Arbor is the Maya Lin sculpture.
It is in a public courtyard on North Campus, between the Francois Xavier
Bagnoud (FXB) building and the Engineering Programs Building (EPB) near the
corner of Hubbard and Beal. Walk east on Hubbard from Beal, and turn south
at the end of the building.
The sculpture is called "Wave Field", and it is a 3D representation of sine
waves. Takes up about 20 x 20 sq feet in the courtyard.
|
scott
|
|
response 24 of 30:
|
Sep 10 21:34 UTC 2003 |
It's cool, but rather hard to find.
|