Let’s Go Outside: Making Art Public
Co-presented by Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and Monash Art Projects (MAP)
Saturday 31 August 2019
Nicholas Baume has a long association
with public art that began with curating
From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff
Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and
Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney for the
twenty-fifth anniversary of Kaldor Art
Projects in 1995, with Koons’s Puppy
installed in front of the museum.
Baume joined Public Art Fund as
Director and Chief Curator in 2009.
During his tenure he has curated many
major projects, including Ai Weiwei’s
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
(2017), which celebrated the organisation’s fortieth anniversary and saw over
three hundred works installed in all five
boroughs of New York City. Public Art
Fund describes its mission as bringing
‘dynamic contemporary art to a broad
audience in New York City and beyond
by mounting ambitious free exhibitions
of international scope and impact that
offer the public powerful experiences
with art and the urban environment.’
Respondent: Charlotte Day, Director, MUMA
