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        </font><font face="Arial,helvetica"><strong>What is the public artist's responsibility to
        his/her audience? </strong><br>
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          <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/fink01.html')"><font size="2">TLC Permit Denial</font><font
            face="Arial,helvetica" size="2"> -- &quot;...the </font><font size="2">necessary
            permission was denied </font><font face="Arial,helvetica" size="2">....&quot;</a></i><br>
            </font><font size="2">Tom Finkelpearl</font><font face="Arial,helvetica" size="2"> -- </font><font
            size="2">June 30</font></font><font face="Arial,helvetica" size="2">-2001<br>
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              <li><font face="Arial,helvetica"><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/ngreenwood01.html')"><font
                size="2">Predictable Neutrality</font><font face="Arial,helvetica" size="2"> -- &quot;...</font><font
                size="2">Sherr's response is certainly a sad commentary on public life today</font><font
                face="Arial,helvetica" size="2">....&quot;</a></i><br>
                </font><font size="2">Norma Greenwood</font><font face="Arial,helvetica" size="2"> -- </font><font
                size="2">July 16</font></font>-2001<br>
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              <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/drich02.html')">Re: Predictable Neutrality --
                &quot;...This thought touches on an important issue of translating between aesthetics and
                politics....&quot;</a></i><br>
                Damon Rich -- July 27-2001<br>
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          <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/nbecker01.html')">The Artist's Job -- &quot;... to
            make people aware ....&quot;</a></i><br>
            Noah Becker (Big Society Art) -- July 06 -2001<br>
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              <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/clark01.html')">The Artist's Job -- &quot;... the
                artist is an advocate of the people....&quot;</a></i><br>
                Clark -- June 28 -2001 <br>
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                  <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/fink02.html')">The Audience's Responsibility--
                    &quot;... Are we too soft on the audience? Don't they have a responsibility to meet the
                    artist half way?....&quot;</a></i><br>
                    Tom Finkelpearl-- July 16 -2001 <br>
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                  <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/jjenkins01.html')">Unsolicited Art-- &quot;... the
                    self-promotional intent of the artist is not an insignificant variable in the
                    institutional decision-making process here....&quot;</a></i><br>
                    Jim Jenkins-- July 22 -2001 <br>
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            <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/mfritz01.html')">Meet Each Other Half Way...--
              &quot;... just producing the art work is not yet half the way from the artist to the
              viewer....&quot;</a></i><br>
              Martin Fritz-- July 19 -2001 <br>
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                <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/fink03.html')">Half Way-- &quot;... There is a
                  difference between what an artist must/should do and what a producing institution can
                  do....&quot;</a></i><br>
                  Tom Finkelpearl-- July 19 -2001<br>
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                <li><a href="javascript:openWin('job/njp.html')"><i>Is the bench a bench?-- &quot;... Much
                  public art follows too many rules....&quot;</i></a><br>
                  NJP-- September 7 -2001</li>
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          <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/esmith01.html')">Graffiti Artists -- &quot;...the
            Does a graffiti artist create these elaborate murals for self-satisfaction, or to make
            their community more alive? In other words, do they care if anybody sees it?....&quot;</a></i><br>
            Eric Smith -- July 31-2001<br>
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              <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/eharvey02.html')">Re: Grafitti Artists-- &quot;...
                think that graffiti, like other public art, has two audiences -- a specialized audience
                that &quot;understands&quot; it and a larger accidental audience....&quot;</a></i><br>
                Ellen Harvey-- August 03-2001 <br>
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            <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/fink05.html')">Re: Grafitti Artists-- &quot;... My
              sense is that graffiti tagging is a symptom of the poverty of contemporary public
              space....&quot;</a></i><br>
              Tom Finkelpearl-- August 05-2001 <br>
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            <li><a href="javascript:openWin('job/rodriguez.html')"><i>Re: Grafitti Artists-- &quot;...
              back in the early 90s it wsa the thing to do....&quot;</i></a><br>
              GermanRodriguez-- September 21-2001 </li>
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          <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/aford01.html')">Public Art: Philip Glass vs Lite FM
            -- &quot;...the the expectations surrounding public art are still mired by simplistic
            modernist goals....&quot;</a></i><br>
            Dr. Atil Ford -- August 02-2001<br>
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              <li><i><a href="javascript:openWin('job/fink04.html')">Re: Public Art: Philip Glass vs Lite
                FM-- &quot;... I agree that the notion of 'responsibility' harkens back to European
                religious art, but not to modernism....&quot;</a></i><br>
                Tom Finkelpearl-- August 04-2001 <br>
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              <li><a href="javascript:openWin('job/reardon.html')"><i>Re: Tom Finkelpearl &quot;...I take
                issue with Tom Finkelpearl in his rather arrogant
                'I've-written-a-book-kind-of-way'....&quot;</i></a><br>
                John Reardon-- August 27-2001 <br>
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              <li><a href="javascript:openWin('job/fink06.html')"><i>Re: Tom Finkelpearl &quot;...sorry if
                my tone sounded arrogant....&quot;</i></a><br>
                Tom Finkelpearl-- September 26-2001 <br>
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          <li><a href="javascript:openWin('job/liu.html')"><i>Intervening the Public -- &quot;...</i>public
            art we see around cities are nothing but just decorations for the squares, avenues, parks
            and parliament compounds...&quot;</a><br>
            Ulrich Liu -- September 08-2001<br>
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          <li><a href="javascript:openWin('job/oriane.html')"><i>How can the arts community respond?
            -- &quot;...</i>how will artists respond to the terrorist attacks?...&quot;</a><br>
            Oriane -- September 20-2001<br>
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