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# A Campaign to Replace Public Ads with Art Lives on as a Book and an Exhibition
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-in-ad-places-book-exhibition-lucas-lucas/
- Published: 2018-01-23T23:03:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:39:27.000Z
- Description: A new book and exhibition document Art in Ad Places, a recently completed and year-long project to replace New York City advertising with art.
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: Art, Art in Ad Places, Events, Luna Park, Public Art, Street Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![For Freedoms with Hank Willis Thomas (all photos by and courtesy Luna Park)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/01/art-ad-places-for-freedoms.jpg)

For Freedoms with Hank Willis Thomas (all photos by and courtesy Luna Park)

It’s been just over a year since [the launch of Art in Ad Places](https://hyperallergic.com/349584/a-guerrilla-campaign-is-replacing-ads-with-art-around-new-york-city/), a guerrilla project to replace a small fraction of the flotsam of display advertising filling the New York cityscape with art. Now that the 52-week p[ublic service campaign](https://www.artinadplaces.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has run its course, an exhibition of photographs of the public art project shot by street art photographer [Luna Park](https://www.instagram.com/lunapark/?ref=hyperallergic.com), and an accompanying book, will ensure that the ephemeral project endures.

On Friday, January 26, Brooklyn gallery [LUCAS LUCAS](https://www.lucaslucasnyc.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will host a [book launch and exhibition opening](https://www.facebook.com/events/386415681803830/) for Art in Ad Places, complete with an installation by another artist famed for his ad takeovers, [Jordan Seiler](https://hyperallergic.com/369093/a-worldwide-ad-takeover-that-turned-billboards-into-democratic-spaces/). The exhibition will continue [through February 3](https://www.artinadplaces.com/news/2018/1/13/lets-celebrate-an-exhibition-a-book-and-more?ref=hyperallergic.com), but Friday will be the first opportunity to get your hands on the Art in Ad Places book, featuring images of the surreptitious streetscape interventions — by artists [including](https://www.artinadplaces.com/artwork/?ref=hyperallergic.com) Kameelah Janan Rasheed, the Guerrilla Girls, Rebecca Morgan, Jamel Shabazz, Molly Crabapple, Jeffrey Gibson, and Shepard Fairey — photographed for posterity before they were replaced once again by advertising.

![Jess X. Snow](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/01/art-ad-places-jess-snow-jordan-alam.jpg)

Jess X. Snow

![Shepard Fairey](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/01/art-ad-places-shepard-fairey.jpg)

Shepard Fairey

**When:** Friday, January 26, 7–10 pm  
**Where:** [LUCAS LUCAS](https://www.lucaslucasnyc.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (57 Conselyea Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

*More info* [*on Facebook*](https://www.facebook.com/events/386415681803830/)*.*