The artist’s three-part commission at Madison Square Park includes a mythical female figure atop the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse.
Madison Square Park
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Water Towers as Monuments to Immigration and Identity
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.