BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC ANNOUNCES NEW $3.5 MILLION PUBLIC ART INITIATIVE
The Brooklyn Academy of Music announced yesterday that it is starting a new public art program with $3.5 million from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust, reports Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times.
The BAM Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative will connect the four areas of BAM’s campus via the installation of long-term, site-specific public artworks. Sites will include the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Avenue beneath the vertical BAM sign; the BAM Harvey Theater on Fulton Street; the rear wall of the Howard Gilman Opera House facing the BAM Fisher building on Ashland Place; and the windows of the Peter Jay Sharp Building.
Artists will be nominated for the initiative by an advisory committee of various cultural partners and curators. Leo Villareal’s LED installation Stars, which is currently located in the windows of the Sharp Building, will be included as part of the program, leaving three new works to be commissioned this fall.
