Though it attracted some attention from museums (the Whitney Museum in New York, for example, collected a few internet works), it never really jumped the boundary from experimental practice to mainstream visibility.
Either way, Mr. Goodman is clearly enjoying the national attention the museum financing plan has prompted.
Since joining the Conservancy in 2013, Ms. Rapaport has been a leader in bringing greater critical attention and museum standards to outdoor public art.
To attract more art fans — and attention — the museum plans to make its exhibition program more robust, starting with a show of Cuban contemporary art from the collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin, who in June donated $500,000 to the museum to endow a new gallery that will bear their names.
As befits a change of such import, the redesign was undertaken with much attention: the museum hired perhaps the world's foremost typographer, paid him in the low five figures and spent eight months scrutinizing every tiny step in the process.
Close attention to museum objects and their material, social, and political status is also key.
For all the attention the museum got, plenty of it questioned his role in the operation.
Despite the negative public attention, the museum maintains it was "proud" to host the digital art installation, which was watched by millions of viewers around the world. .
Despite the negative public attention, the museum maintains it was "proud" to host the digital art installation, which was watched by millions of viewers around the world.
