Object Orange

 ( Public Art In The United States ) 

Object Orange (formerly Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. The Detroiter article , based on an anonymous e-mail from the artists) is an project in Detroit, Michigan which seeks to draw attention to by painting them orange. Good Magazine , Issue 001

The project is composed of local artists, who go by their only (Christian, Jacques, Greg, Mike Urban Blight Gets a Paint Job , Transcript from segment by the Great Lakes Radio Consortium on January 23, 2006 and Andy Object Orange Goes National , Article in Absolute Michigan on December 12, 2006) for fear of prosecution. James Canning, communications coordinator for the Mayor's office of Detroit, views the artists' actions as Crime and vandalism, stating that any which took place following the project's painting expeditions have been coincidental.Interview on NPR's Day to Day program, December 7, 2006

The artists chose the color "Tiggerific Orange Disney paint catalog" from the Disney paint catalog by Behr for its similarity to and the safety orange worn by hunting.

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See also

• urban decay
• protest art

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External links

• http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20060515/orange-alert

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