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Artist Mary Mattingly Wants to Know: Where Does Your Water Come From?

Avatar photo by Rachel Remick August 3, 2021August 4, 2021

Mattingly’s public art project at Prospect Park aims to raise awareness about how to create more equitable and sustainable public water systems.

Posted inNews

19th-century Arch in Prospect Park Gets Impressive Remodel

by Hakim Bishara December 10, 2020December 14, 2020

As a tribute to the original design of the Endale Arch, the restoration team left one brick and granite cross vault exposed to display the “detailed craftsmanship put in place over 150 years ago.”

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A Fallen Brooklyn Elm Shaped into Objects That Reflect on Immigration

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 15, 2017September 15, 2017

The Witness Tree Project asked RISD students to design objects reflecting on immigration, made from a fallen 150-year-old elm in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

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Celebrate 150 Years of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park with 19th-Century Stereograms

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 3, 2017April 3, 2017

Contrast the 19th century to the present day through stereoscopic photographs of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, which opened in 1867 and is celebrating its 150th birthday.

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In Brooklyn, a Clinton Sign Joins a Collection Dedicated to Presidential Runners-Up

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 9, 2016

A sign for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign joins presidential runners-up in Nina Katchadourian’s “Monument to the Unelected” in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

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Signs of a Presidential Loser

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian November 5, 2016November 9, 2016

Nina Katchadourian’s “Monument to the Unelected” gives us a chance to consider what it means to be a loser in our electoral system.

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Seeing Digitally Manipulated Landscapes Out in the “Wild”

by Alan Lupiani April 12, 2016April 19, 2016

One does not often associate a walk in the park with experiencing contemporary art presented on security fences by way of large mesh tarps. But that’s just what you’ll find at Natural Disruptions.

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In the Vale of Cashmere: Prospect Park’s Hidden World of Gay Cruising

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne October 20, 2015November 2, 2015

“When I got there, I found the park filled with men in the same horny, hungry state of mind I was in … I can’t remember ever seeing so many gorgeous black men in any one place,” Rory Buchanan wrote in his short story “Summer Chills.”

Posted inBooks

Better than Central Park: Olmsted and Vaux’s Brooklyn Masterpiece

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 27, 2013

While we may not participate in miniature yacht races or have games of lawn tennis, the experience of visitors today to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park isn’t radically different from when it first opened in 1867.

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