DIY Public Art!

I really enjoyed the new NYFA Current: the DIY Public Art issue:

In the midst of this global financial crisis, it seemed fitting to focus this special issue of NYFA Current on artists producing unfunded public art projects. Thinking outside of the art market box, without the support of galleries or sponsors and in most cases using little or no monies of their own, the artists in this month’s Current work in both urban and rural environments—whether it be John Fekner, whose spray-painted stencils span New York City's five boroughs; Poster Boy's crafty reconfigurations of NYC subways ads; Karen Brummund's poetic paperings of buildings in upstate New York; or Ann Reichlin's manipulations of a derelict house in Utica. Additionally, activist and art critic Lucy Lippard writes on, among other things, the Land Art field program at the Universities of Texas and New Mexico. All of the works featured here are temporary, and political to varying degrees, for the artists in this issue dared to seize unregulated spaces to freely and independently make their mark.