Abstract
In every public art commission, there are multiple stakeholders: artists, patrons, public art administrators, and various publics. For an artist the success of a project depends on site, since the site determines or at the very least frames the work. Visibility is paramount, as is appropriateness to its immediate surroundings, whether a building or a landscape. All sites have a local, if not national, context that is established well before they are transformed by public art. Beyond various stakeholders, there are a range of external factors that may result in failure of a public art project. These include political contexts, economic shifts, material deterioration, shifting demographics, as well as local and historical contexts. The failure to articulate clear goals is almost surely a blueprint for failure for the patron, and in turn the artist, whose work will not satisfy them. Most stakeholders seem to consider a controversial work public art a failure.
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