Introduction: a short history of the United States' "official" public art
Roosevelt's New Deal
General Services Administration's art-in-architecture program
National Endowment for the Arts' art-in-public-places program
Conventional wisdom: populist intentions within established paradigms
Art as monument, art as memorial
Art as amenity
Art in the park, art as the park
Art as the agora
Art as pilgrimage
Culture to go: from art world to the world
What museums do for us
My museum
Education, outreach, programming
The alternative museum/alternatives to museums
Not quite "art," not quite "public": lessons from the private sector
The art of entertainment
This is special, I am special
Open pocketbook, open agenda?
Embracing spectacle
Super viewer: increasing individual agency on the public art front
Power to the people
Claiming space and place
Dig in
Conclusion: art for all?
The trouble with (re)development
Nonprofits and the ephemeral idyll
Back to school
Grieving loss, remembering life
Two tales in one city.