Art

An Efficient LA in Chris Burden's Mini-City

Metropolis II, on display now at the LA County Museum of Art, features a futuristic model of Los Angeles in which cars and trains zip around super-efficiently (and, reportedly, loudly).
14 January 2012 - 1:00pm
Curbed LA

Trying to Preserve a Piece of San Francisco History

San Francisco's Coit Tower is one of the city's historic and iconic buildings, and it's also home to a collection of historic fresco paintings of Depression-era California. But the building and its paintings are falling apart.
7 January 2012 - 11:00am
Los Angeles Times

Art As Urban Change Agent

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett examins the viability of arts driven urban revitalization and finds that the strongest predictor of success is the nature of the art being produced and exhibited in the neighborhood.
7 November 2011 - 12:00pm
The New York Times

Miami's Burgeoning Downtown Art Scene

Mera Rubell, one of America's premier art collectors, explains to Richard Florida why she loves collecting her art in Miami, and which is the best American City for artists.
5 October 2011 - 9:00am
The Atlantic

Pinpointing the City's Center

Google Maps searches include a pinpoint of what the search engine has determined are the centers of cities. One artist has built sculptures of those pinpoints in their real-life locations.
31 August 2011 - 5:00am
Architizer

A Fictional City Traced in the Desert

A recent art project in Peru utilizes a robotic vehicle to trace a scale outline of a city into the empty desert, raising questions about urbanization in deserts and the formation of cities.
20 August 2011 - 7:00am
We Make Money Not Art

Transforming the City Through Photography

The photographic distortions of architect and photographer Murat Germen take cities as their target, and transform them into single-axis representations of urban form and history.
18 August 2011 - 12:00pm
Architizer

Art as Public Participation

Candy Chang is using public art installations to spark community involvement and input on land use.
16 August 2011 - 1:00pm
Grist

A Tour of Three Detroit Community Gardens

Community gardens are popping up all over Detroit. This post from Model D takes a tour through three of them, and explores how they balance art and nature.
11 August 2011 - 5:00am
Model D

Why Public Art?

Public art plays a role in cities across the world. But what role exactly, and for what purpose? Glass House Conversations explores these questions in this series.
9 August 2011 - 12:00pm
Glass House Conversations

Urban Art Brightens Dull Sections of Toronto

A variety of unsanctioned urban art projects are scattered throughout Toronto, bringing life and energy to otherwise underused spaces.
28 July 2011 - 6:00am
The Toronto Star

Land Art's Expired Lease Raises Questions

A recent bid to lease the land that houses Spiral Jetty, the iconic piece of landscape art by Robert Smithson, has raised questions about whether art on land can be owned and where the line between the two should lie.
15 July 2011 - 1:00pm
Reuters

Cities On Video

This post from The Urbanophile highlights some of the best videos focused on cities.
9 July 2011 - 9:00am
The Urbanophile

Los Angeles' Legacy of Murals is Disappearing

The legacy of Los Angeles murals has all but left the city, buried under sign ordinances, billboard policy and tagging. Tanner Blackman in the Dept. of City Planning Code Studies Section is working to free up the knot of regulation.
7 July 2011 - 11:00am
KCET

Asking Locals What To Do With Abandoned Buildings

Artist Candy Chang has taken an old building in Fairbanks, Alaska and turned it into a public idea board that asks locals what they think should be done with it.
1 July 2011 - 11:00am
Fast Company

Stalled Developments Documented

Photographer Daniel Kariko focuses on issues of land use in sensitive environments. His latest work looks at stalled suburban housing developments in the U.S.
21 June 2011 - 10:00am
domus

Lighting Up the Public Realm

This video from Public Architecture looks at three outdoor lighting displays and their impact on the public realm in San Francisco.
26 May 2011 - 1:00pm
Public Architecture

'Streets are Never a Blank Canvas'

This essay from Pop Matters explores the connection between street art and urbanism.
12 April 2011 - 8:00am
Pop Matters

Reusing Empty Office Space

Through a rule that allows landlords to financially benefit from allowing charities and non-profits to use their spaces, empty office buildings in the UK are being utilized by groups for a variety of projects, including an art exhibition.
24 March 2011 - 10:00am
This Big City

Hypothetical Developments and Urban Interventions

In an effort to encourage thinking about the future of the city, a new group of urban planners/artists has created a series of posters depicting imagined urban developments in New Orleans and posted them around town.
18 March 2011 - 9:00am
Places
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