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

by Rhea Nayyar 2 days agoJanuary 25, 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.

Posted inOpinion

In Manhattan, a Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism

Avatar photo by Vina Orden June 20, 2021June 17, 2021

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.

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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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Transforming Walking and Talking into Poetry at Madison Square Park

by Jillian Steinhauer July 3, 2017

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?

by John Yau August 28, 2016August 30, 2016

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.

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Seeing the World from Nature’s Many Perspectives

Avatar photo by Lee Ann Norman December 30, 2015December 29, 2015

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 2, 2015April 2, 2015

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.

Peter Regli, “Snow Monsters” (2015)
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12 Marble Snowmen Laugh at Snowmageddon

by Vic Vaiana January 27, 2015January 29, 2015

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

by Daniel Larkin September 9, 2014September 10, 2014

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.

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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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