Fatal Attraction: Public Art and Milwaukee with Tom Bamberger

Artist, photographer and writer Tom Bamberger will present a brief history of the national public art movement, starting with Richard Serra’s controversial public sculpture, Tilted Arc, installed in New York City from 1981 to 1989, and review the history of public art in Milwaukee. He will also reflect about what landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Milwaukee’s Lake Park, might think of the park today.

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ABOUT TOM BAMBERGER

Tom Bamberger's photographs have been collected and shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Art in America and The New York Times. Bamberger is also the author of many essays and publications and currently writes the “In Public” column for the website Urban Milwaukee. During his more than 20 years as a contributing editor for Milwaukee Magazine, he has written hundreds of articles about the visual world that have garnered numerous honors. While working at the Milwaukee Art Museum as the curator of photography for more than a decade, Bamberger produced more than 30 exhibitions and publications.