8The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, August 21, 1986
Art takes a ride on the Chapel Hill buses in traveling exhibit
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By BETH RHEA
Staff Writer
An unusual piece of artwork will
soon add a different touch to the
buses serving the Chapel Hill
Transit system as part of a unique
exhibition of the N.C. Museum of
Art in Raleigh.
"Surveilllance is Your Busy
work," a poster by New York artist
Barbara Kruger that is part of the
museum's "Public Art Show"
exhibit, will adorn the buses
through Oct. 19.
The works in the "Public Art
Show" incorporate techniques and
slogans of mass media advertising
to comment on the effects of mass
communication on people. Broom
said.
For example. "Surveillance is
Your Busy work" seems to be an
ordinary advertisement, but its
message is not clear. The poster
features a man squinting through
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Barbara Kruger's posters will be displayed for bus riders
a spyglass at the viewer.
"Kruger's poster seems to
address the totalitarian nature of
our society, with definite Orwellian
overtones," said Huston Paschal,
assistant curator of the museum.
Kruger. one of 35 artists partic
ipating in the exhibit, specifically
asked museum officials that her
work not be shown in the formal
museum setting among other art
works. She told museum officials
that her intention when designing
the poster was to display it in a
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This is the first issue of Omnibus,
the weekly arts and entertainment
magazine of The Daily Tar Heel.
Omnibus will feature reviews of
albums by WXYC disc jockeys;
movies, books and television reviews
and previews; stories on regional
cultural offerings; and feature stories
on issues of interest to Tar Heel
students.
If you are interested in writing for
Omnibus or other sections of The
Daily Tar Heel, please contact Jim
Zook at the DTH office by Aug. 28.
mass transit system.
Her other 20 works in the exhibit
are being shown in public areas of
the museum, isolated from other
art works.
The bus system regularly pro
vides advertising space for non
profit agencies at a small service
fee. according to Alan Tobias, a
department spokesman.
These posters, however, are not
for advertising purposes, according
to Sharon Broom, the mdseumV
communications officer. They are
intended to be regarded as "art in
an unusual place."
The posters were installed on the
buses last weekend and will remain
until the exhibition closes. The
remaining works will be on exhibit
Wednesdav through Sundays until
Oct. 19.
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