The Council is pleased to present a series of three theme-based self-guided
audio walking tours exploring the meaning, reception, and context of
public art in Lower Manhattan.
Simply download the tour to your iPod or other MP3 player and start walking.
Tour 1: Art & Security
With public art in Lower Manhattan placed
amongst real threats and expressions of state power, how can art contribute
to our security, either by acting as a physical barrier to a space or
as a symbolic marker of authority?
Duration: approximately 45 minutes
Starts at the corner of Centre
St. and White St.. Ends at Trinity
Church Download tour (right-click
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directions to the starting point
Tour 2: Art and the Body
Statues of human bodies - public art - seem in some ways bridge
a gap between architecture and the body. Join us as we look at the history
and context of Lower Manhattan through the lens of bodies in art.
Starts at Federal Hall National Monument on Wall St. between Nassau St. and
William St. Download tour (right-click
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Tour 3: Monuments and Memory
On this tour we look at monuments and memorials that aren't
just passive things to be looked at. They're active sites which contribute
to our collective formation of memory. In the other tours we look at
the ways in which public art can define a space. Now we'll hopefully
look at how public art defines the way in which we, as a culture, remember.
Starts at The Sphere in Battery Park Download tour (right-click
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Your Guides
Perry Garvin and William Smith
William Smith is a graduate student at New
York University's Institute of Fine Arts and an Independent Culture Consultant.
He has worked most recently with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2wice
Magazine and Art In General.
Perry Garvin, a graduate of Columbia University's masters program in Modern Art.
