More Public Art news via Twitter; Blog Update Schedule

You'll notice if you are a regular browser of our blog that we recently added a Twitter news feed at right on our full screen pages. Why did we add the feature? It's a way for me to post links to stories that will be of interest to you if you like public art, but which are on topics that were either too short to expand upon - as Goldilocks would say, they were already "just right" - or the topics were not directly relevant to current work in Winston-Salem. They were just...interesting. Idea generators.

What have you been missing if not following our Twitter "tweets"? Recent posts include: "CNET's recent list of 'Top 5 Hi-tech Public Art Masterpieces' (with another five thrown in for good measure...)." "Love and Public Art in the Time of Budget Cuts (apologies to G.G. Marquez): How St. Lucie County FL is coping." "See how this Plensa piece in downtown Des Moines perks up the skyline." "Congrats to 4 in NC listed; but no Winston-Salem? AmericanStyle's Top 25 Arts Destinations: Asheville #2 small city." We will try and post something new twice a week to our Twitter account on Sundays and Wednesdays (though we won't be chained to an update if our personal travel schedule makes us late a time or two). Point is, there is much to see and learn from out there, and we want to keep you interested in this topic as we wait for more local leadership on the issue. If you'd like to follow us directly through your own Twitter account, our account is @arsurbi. Otherwise, just check our Twitter RSS feed updates here regularly.

Finally, to date, most of our blog posts have been events-driven, not calendar-driven. As summer is usually a slow period in our town, I'll be trying to post new blog entries once a week or so on the weekend. Again, the goal is to keep you abreast of news in the development of public art ideas locally, and the best in public art practices in other locations around the state, nation, and "planet Earth." Quentin Tarantino said at his Cannes premiere this week that he doesn't make "American" movies, but "movies for the planet Earth." It was movie promo hubris - and Cannes organizers loved that they were the place to go to be seen by "planet Earth" - but as art goes, it was the right kind of hubris. Public art may have local ties in Winston-Salem, but quality art has a language understood by "planet Earth."