My Favorite Public Art...

[PonderInc]

As promised...photos of the Chicago "Bean" (aka "Cloud Gate.")





Oh, and a cool amphitheater in Millenium Park designed by Frank Gehry.

[Townsend]

I like the bean alot.

How often do they have to deal with "El Norte" and his ilk defacing it?

[kylieosu]

The Bean is definitely awesome. I just love Chicago.

[Hometown]

Some of the most beautiful artworks in North America available for viewing by the public are the famed murals about the discovery of the New World by Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco on display in a former orphanage in Guadalajara, Mexico.  The former orphanage is now called the Instituto Cultural Cabanas and the United Nations declared the murals a World Heritage Site in 1997.  The photographs in the attached thread do not do justice to the murals.  When you visit Guadalajara to see these murals I suggest you stay downtown at a hotel that was built as a nunnery in 1610 – the Hotel Frances.  It's on the web.  Guadalajara is loaded with public art and cathedrals and parks. 

http://www.explore-guadalajara.com/HospicioCabanas.html