Introduction: a short history of the United States' "official" public art
General Services Administration's art-in-architecture program
National Endowment for the Arts' art-in-public-places program
Conventional wisdom: populist intentions within established paradigms
Art as monument, art as memorial
Art in the park, art as the park
Culture to go: from art world to the world
Education, outreach, programming
The alternative museum/alternatives to museums
Not quite "art," not quite "public": lessons from the private sector
This is special, I am special
Open pocketbook, open agenda?
Super viewer: increasing individual agency on the public art front
The trouble with (re)development
Nonprofits and the ephemeral idyll
Grieving loss, remembering life
