An audience of 120 people joined the panel in a lively discussion stimulated by Mark Wallinger’s Art on the Underground commission ‘Labyrinth’. We considered the motivations behind public art, the shifts in its public reception and its potential for effecting social change. We also named and shamed our least favourite public artworks…
The Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London. Thursday 17 October 2013, 6.30-8.30
The speakers in action: me, Mark Wallinger, Matilda Pye (V&A) and David Heathcote (cultural historian and broadcaster)