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Boston’s Quest Eternal, or Eternal Quest for the pennant, a playoff birth, and powerful public art. (Photo: Don DeLue’s sculpture, submitted to our Flickr Group)

So, Boston believes it’s a great city. But does it have great public art? Sure, we’ve got a bas relief of Civil War heroes, but Chicago has a Picasso in Daley Plaza.

Art, ahht, however you might say it, pull a Jackson Pollock and splatter paint our website with your comments.

And while you’re at it, send us a cell phone shot, a professional picture, or a tourist snap of your favorite regional public art. Official or renegade, bronze or Banksy knock-off, link them all to our Flickr pool on Boston’s public art.

For more links, videos, pictures and a look at public art in other cities, read on…

Listen to the full show:

Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/05/radioboston_0530.mp3


One thing I love about Boston is the constant churn of new ideas and new work.This year’s Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition is a case in point. From painting to print-making, photography, sculpture, and video, it featured the work of university and college graduates from across the region.Among those whose work was chosen for display by the art jurors is my friend Tim Geers. A talented and gregarious cameraman and former comrade in television, Tim long ago mastered what have become the low arts of local TV news and has now certifiably mastered the fine arts of video with a recent degree from the Art Institute of Boston.


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