Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin is a contemporary artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

[1] In this project, Rubin and Clayton have hired a team of sign painters to meticulously render the titles of each rejected work, one by one.

[6] In March 2018, a text by artist Alisha B. Wormsley stating "THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE" was removed after several weeks of display.

According to statement by Rubin on April 3, 2018, originally posted to the project website, “Last week, The Last Billboard’s landlord, We Do Property, forced Alisha’s text to be taken down over objections to the content (through a never-before evoked clause in the lease that gives the landlord the right to approve text).”[6] ...circle through New York (2017), for which the full title is A talking parrot, a high school drama class, a Punjabi TV show, the oldest song in the world, a museum artwork, and a congregation's call to action circle through New York, was a project in collaboration with artist Lenka Clayton commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

The Guggenheim Museum (Upper East Side), Saint Philip's Church (Harlem), Pet Resources (South Bronx), Frank Sinatra School for the Arts (Queens), Jus Broadcasting (Queens), and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (Upper East Side), each with their own communities and audiences, were the participating institutions.