Mary Jane Jacob lecture in relation to Kwon

Miwon Kwon explains in One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity that "new genre public artists seek to engage (nonart) issues in the hearts and minds of the 'average man on the street' or 'real people' outside the art world. Mary Jane Jacob explained this concept in great detail in her lecture. She explained that museums acted as the 'middle man' between the artists and their audience and by taking these public art projects out of museums, the art is brought back into common life. Museums are intended to attract the upper class, making it more difficult for the 'common man' to be affected by art. They are also very much like institutionalized gatekeepers, when in reality the artist should be the only gatekeeper to his/her art. Jacob explained that John Dewey said that "art can have a consequence, but we must allow it do that." In other words, all art is produced for a purpose and by putting these art pieces in museums, only certain people are affected by it. New genre public art brings art back to the people and makes these projects just as much about public as they are art.