VITO ACCONCI ON PUBLIC ART’S PROS AND CONS

A week after the official unveiling of his new public art project Light Beams for the Sky of a Transfer Corridor at San Francisco International Airport, Vito Acconci spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Kenneth Baker about the genesis of the piece and his sometimes fraught interactions with the city’s Arts Commission. “We would have preferred it if we were asked to design the airport, but we weren’t,” Acconci said.