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Public Art to Ease the Anxiety of Waiting
Installed in over 500 bus shelters and 1,700 wifi kiosks around the five boroughs, Art on the Grid softens, just a little, our long waits, for the bus, for the pandemic to be over.
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Pope.L Wants You to Crawl Across New York With Him
The renowned performance artist is seeking more than 100 volunteers to participate in his largest performance yet, “Conquest.”
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Returns to New York for 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
Thirty years after its debut, the historic artwork will return to stop passersby in their tracks.
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Dazzling WWI Camouflage Public Art Project Transforms a Historic New York Fireboat
To mark the centenary of World War I’s end, a New York fireboat is repainted by artist Tauba Auerbach in a dazzling tribute to the era’s most colorful camouflage.
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“I’m the Opposite of Donald Trump”: Yinka Shonibare MBE on His New Public Sculpture in NYC
The British-Nigerian artist’s Public Art Fund commission, located just a few blocks from Trump Tower, is a tall, billowing form featuring a riotous pattern inspired by Dutch wax fabrics.
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Giant Cuttlefish Make Sweet Love in New York’s City Hall Park
Katja Novitskova has unleashed enlarged and playfully juxtaposed scientific images throughout the Lower Manhattan park.
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Aiming to Disrupt Ads in New York City, Artworks Instead Blend In
Public Art Fund’s Commercial Break places interventions by 23 artists on advertising screens around the city.
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A Public Art Forest of 4,000 Spindly Redwoods Takes Root
Spencer Finch’s new public art project has 4,000 trees recreating part of a California redwood forest in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Decoding Public Art in City Hall Park
Between the four speakers of Chris Watson’s “Ring Angels,” the fluttering of a thousand wings fills a corner of City Hall Park.
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Hank Willis Thomas Seeks the Truth
“The truth is I love you,” reads the sign as you enter Brooklyn’s MetroTech Commons — not a bad way to pique the interest of passersby, appealing to their vanities and insecurities.
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The Digital Lives of Public Art Considered in City Hall Park
Digital artifacts manifested as public sculpture populate the Public Art Fund’s Image Objects in Lower Manhattan’s City Hall Park.