"Public Art of the Midwest" by yooperprof

But I know what I like!

And I really like this creepy spider by sculptor Louise Bourgeois. It's on the front lawn of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.

is theft!!

American Pop Artist Jim Dine (born in 1935) has taken a neo-classical turn (of appropriation) with this "Cleveland Venus (as in "de Milo"). It graces the front of the new Federal Courthouse in Cleveland, and was unveiled in 2003.

Bigger is better. That seems to be the artist motto of partners Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. You can "dig" this garden implement if you visit the Des Moines headquarters of the Meredith Corporation.

Eliel Saarinen's unearthly sculptures at the Cranbrook Academy in suburban Detroit.

Grandview - a house decorated with thousands of piece of ceramic tile - stands in a field surrounded by the homely sculptures of a self-taught Wisconsin folk artist. Well off the beaten path, in Hollandale, which is about 50 miles SW of Madison.

Plumbing can be beautiful - especially when it is an "artist-designed" restroom facility at the Kohler Museum in Sheboygan WI. (The Museum was founded with considerable support from the local Kohler family - well known for having built a company internationally famous for bathroom fixtures.)

For some reason, the artist insists upon calling this fantastic addition to Chicago's Millenium Park "Cloud Gate." But most Chicagoans I know have their own name for it: the Silver Bean. Anish Kapoor (born in India in 1954) is the artist who created the piece.

Can a museum really be considered to be a piece of Public Art? Yes, most definitely, when it's designed by the brilliant Santiago Calatrava. The Milwaukee Art Milwaukee is sufficient reason to go out of your way to visit this charming midwestern metroplex.