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August 19, 2005

Happy 20th Birthday to NYC's Percent for Art Program

percent.jpg New York City's Percent for Art program is celebrating its 20th anniversary, says Michael Kimmelman in the N.Y. Times (8/19/05). The Center for Architecture, in Greenwich Village, is holding an exhibition through Sept. 24 to coincide with the publication of a new book, "City Art," edited by Marvin Heiferman, with essays by Adam Gopnik and Eleanor Heartney, looking back on what Percent for Art has accomplished so far. It has become the largest public art program in the city since the Great Depression, says Kimmelman. There have been more than 200 projects completed in schools, parks, police precincts and branch libraries, public squares, hospitals, juvenile detention centers and courthouses. Incrementally, usually without much fuss, they have enlarged the city's visual topography. [LINK]

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