ABSTRACT
People have always asked me, “Why do you call it visual and public art, why don’t you just call it visual art, or why don’t you call it public art, why do you say both?” And if we simply say “visual art,” people might think that we mean the individual production of objects of beauty. If we say “public art,” they might think that we mean only those things that were large, big, and outsize. In order for us to develop a language about artists working in public settings, we must start to talk about making public culture.
