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An Afternoon in the Park With Shahzia Sikander’s Golden Monuments 

by Rhea Nayyar January 24, 2023January 31, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson March 20, 2022March 21, 2022

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.

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Maya Lin Erects a Ghostly Grove of Dead Trees in Manhattan

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

Lin’s Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park will feature 50 towering white cedars devastated by climate change.

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The Role and Responsibility of Public Art in the Modern Day

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas June 19, 2019

The Innovating Public Art symposium will consider a bevy of questions around public art through discussions with artists like Martin Puryear, Leonardo Drew, and others.

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Arlene Shechet Smuggles Politics into Madison Square Park

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 20, 2018November 21, 2018

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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Who Is Martin Puryear? A Primer on America’s Next Representative at the Venice Biennale

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 16, 2018

The 77-year-old sculptor has a history of talking back to the government, but we will see if his streak continues on the world stage.

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Water Towers as Monuments to Immigration and Identity

by Laura C. Mallonee March 18, 2014

Never had a water tower — its silhouette ubiquitous to New York’s skyline — been examined so carefully. Each was elevated eight feet above the ground on black stilts, and locals and tourists approached them curiously, standing beneath and craning their necks upward to see the contents within.

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