the Public Art Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Patching OS

The Public Art Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Patching the Public Art OS is a technical reference and administrative handbook designed for municipal leaders, public art administrators, urban planners, civic attorneys, and cultural agencies. Moving beyond aesthetic theory, this text provides battle-tested operational frameworks, risk-allocation models, scoring matrices, and contract structuring strategies for managing public art procurement, asset lifecycles, and civil infrastructure delivery. Author Anton Roark Trask Morton draws on deep field experience to address statutory purchasing mandates, capital improvement project (Percent for Art) mechanics, artist commissioning, legal disclaimers, and long-term collection stewardship. Essential for institutional stakeholders seeking to modernize public art governance, mitigate municipal liability, and establish transparent, scalable civic art operations.