The Public Art Reader is a didacto-socratic serial publication about public art and the public function of art, asking, among other questions, "Who is that public?", "Who gets to choose?", and, "What is possible?" Speculations and arguments from authors living, dead, and unknown are specially arranged in a compact broadsheet. Public Art Reader (Public Reader Art) assumes the operational metaphors "juxtaposition as a path to insight" and "compilation as argument." Distribution of the Public Art Reader is occasional and site-specific. Letters to the editor may be addressed to rreeaaddeerr@mit.edu.