Features
Madison Square Park Glows Up With Larry Bell’s Glass Cubes
His artworks reflect the world around them, collecting leaves in the glass boxes, and providing a respite from the daily grind.
Madison Square Park
Art
Rose B. Simpson’s Soaring Metal Sentinels Watch Over Madison Square Park
The artist explained that the sculptures in Seed “transform the nature of a hectic and scary city, in a sense, to a place that’s really safe.”
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An Afternoon in the Park With Shahzia Sikander’s Golden Monuments
The artist’s three-part commission at Madison Square Park includes a mythical female figure atop the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse.
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Surrounded by Wealth, an Artist’s Comment on Education Loses Its Edge
Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden's Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling.
Opinion
In Manhattan, a Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism
The location of Maya Lin’s “Ghost Forest” next to the Flatiron building evokes for me, a Filipina American, the legacy of the architect Daniel Burnham.
Art
Arlene Shechet Smuggles Politics into Madison Square Park
The tireless artist, on the vanguard of experimental sculpture, has decided that the Trump Era requires public art to be political.
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Transforming Walking and Talking into Poetry at Madison Square Park
From July 4 to 8, MC Hyland will be in residence among Josiah McElheny's sculptures, exploring the connection between walking and poetry.
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Is It a Trojan Horse?
In 1989, after a protracted litigation, a jury of five voted four to one in favor of removing Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc” (1981) from Federal Plaza in Manhattan, where it had stood for nearly a decade.
Interview
Seeing the World from Nature's Many Perspectives
Brooklyn-based artist Teresita Fernández is well known for using unconventional materials and creating large-scale sculptures and installations that draw our attention to visual perception.
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Crystal Balls of Cast-off Technology Illuminate a Park in Manhattan
Experiencing Paula Hayes’s Gazing Globes in Madison Square Park is recommended for after sunset, when the spheres are illuminated in the night like crystal balls of divination.
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12 Marble Snowmen Laugh at Snowmageddon
Serendipitously anticipating the city’s underwhelming blizzard, a troupe of marble snowmen — the latest installment in Swiss artist Peter Regli’s Reality Hacking series — was installed in Manhattan near Madison Square Park this past Sunday.
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The Folly of Performance
Performance art doesn't have to be so heavy. It can be light, like diving head-first into the trash, in Tamar Ettun's case.