A Must-See for Public Art Lovers!

June 19th, 2008 at 02:15pm Kendal Henry

I arrived in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon to be sure that I was well rested for the 8:30 Council meetings on Thursday morning. I wanted to see as much of the city as I can so when I arrived at the train station I decided to walk to the hotel, all the while scoping out the public art along the way. As I rounded the corner of 17th Street and JFK Boulevard, a Jonathan Borofsky in the Comcast building lobby caught my eye so I went to investigate. While admiring the sculptures overhead, the wood-paneled wall behind me came alive with images and sounds. What I thought was wood is actually “the world’s largest 4mm LED wall.” For the next few minutes I, and about 20 other people, were entertained by video, poetry, and 3D animation in what I considered to be a beautiful marriage of art, architecture, and technology. It is indeed a fitting start to a conference about “Art in the New Civic Life.”

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