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Massive Artwork for Trans Visibility Unveiled on National Mall
Nearly 260 quilt panels by trans and nonbinary artists spelled out the message "Freedom To Be" in a celebration of joy and resistance.
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New NYC Subway Murals Challenge the Authority of Maps
At 68th Street–Hunter College station, a new trio of mosaics by professor Lisa Corinne Davis is a dizzying exploration of the art of cartography.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard Seeks Public Art Proposals
Kings County artists can submit their best ideas around the theme of "Our Brooklyn" for a temporary installation in 2025.
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Why Is There a Defunct Crane in Madison Square Park?
Nicole Eisenman’s new public artwork has everything to do with land use decisions and urban development in New York City.
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A Giant Pigeon Is Now Perched on New York’s High Line
Iván Argote’s 2,000-pound, nearly 16-foot-tall cast aluminum sculpture of the divisive bird is here to stay for the next 18 months.
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Beloved Sculpture Garden in Manhattan Faces Eviction
The city wants to build affordable housing on the Elizabeth Street Garden plot, but park advocates say one shouldn’t come at the expense of the other.
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Joyce Kozloff’s Harvard Square Mural at Risk of Disappearing
Deteriorating conditions threaten the artist’s homage to regional history and feminist art in the Cambridge transit station.
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Sprawling Sculpture Series Blooms Across Harlem’s Parks
Two dozen works by artists of color document identity, diaspora, and tradition in the neighborhood’s first large-scale public art exhibition.
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What Are Those Giant Painted Heads Floating in the Seine?
Some of the Louvre’s most famous works inspired a series of half-submerged installations for the Olympic games.
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What’s Up With Those Park Avenue Sculptures of Men Missing Body Parts?
Bruno Catalano’s bronze figures are a devastatingly hyper-literal and heavy-handed interpretation of loss.
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New Mosaics Arrive at Metropolitan-Lorimer Subway Stop
Local artists Jackie Chang and Chloë Bass created two multi-panel series, now on view at the Brooklyn station.
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A Giant IUD Lands in DC as Senate Blocks Contraception Access Bill
The lavender inflatable is a visual reminder of what's at stake in the US as legislation protecting access to contraceptives is stalled in Congress.