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At Last, Melvin Edwards’s Steel Abstractions Come to City Hall Park

by Alexandra M. Thomas May 3, 2021May 3, 2021

Brighter Days is bound to transform what we imagine possible with monuments.

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Public Art to Ease the Anxiety of Waiting

by Ilana Novick September 15, 2020November 5, 2020

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.

Posted inIn Brief

Pope.L Wants You to Crawl Across New York With Him

by Zachary Small July 24, 2019July 24, 2019

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

by Zachary Small April 9, 2019

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

by Allison Meier July 17, 2018July 17, 2018

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.

Yinka Shonibare, "
Wind Sculpture (SG) I" (2018), hand-painted fiberglass resin cast 
(courtesy Collection of Davidson College, NC, and James Cohan Gallery, NY; photo by Jason Wyche, courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY)
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“I’m the Opposite of Donald Trump”: Yinka Shonibare MBE on His New Public Sculpture in NYC

by Jessica Holmes March 27, 2018March 28, 2018

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

by Benjamin Sutton September 11, 2017September 12, 2017

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

by Seph Rodney February 27, 2017

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

by Allison Meier October 10, 2016May 11, 2017

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

by Allison Meier August 26, 2016September 1, 2016

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

by Jillian Steinhauer August 5, 2015October 19, 2015

“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

by Allison Meier July 6, 2015July 9, 2015

Digital artifacts manifested as public sculpture populate the Public Art Fund’s Image Objects in Lower Manhattan’s City Hall Park.

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