Thursday, March 29 2018, 5:30pm Georgia Museum of Art, lecture hall Art Historian Michele Bogart will examine recent controversies over public sculpture In New York City. Bogart's talk comes from research for a book-length study on public sculpture in New York City from the period spanning the Cold War and culture wars. The book titled, Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York will be published in April 2018. A scholar with wide-ranging interests, Bogart is a specialist on topics ranging from public monuments to advertising. She has published on public art, memorials, animation, landscape and garden history, photography, and illustration. This is a free event. The public is invited. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Art History program at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and the History Department. Research Area: Public History
