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Mexican Artists and Designers Take Over Rockefeller Center

by Julie Baumgardner May 23, 2022May 24, 2022

Intervención/Intersección, the latest venture from MASA Galería, is a humming subversion of what public art can look like.

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Día de los Muertos Comes to NYC With a Dazzling Display of Mexican Folk Art

by Valentina Di Liscia October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

Sculptures of Oaxacan alebrijes, envisioned as guardians of the nation’s immigrant community, and catrinas, Day of the Dead skeletons, are now at Rockefeller Center.

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Red Flags Are Flying at Rockefeller Center

by Louis Bury September 12, 2020November 5, 2020

Andy Goldsworthy’s installation seeks to signal anti-imperialism at a notoriously capitalist site.

Jeff Koons, "Seated Ballerina" (2017)
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The Hollow Symbolism of Jeff Koons’s Blow-Up Ballerina

by Letícia Wouk Almino May 30, 2017May 31, 2017

The artist’s 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture at Rockefeller Center aggrandizes an outmoded model of femininity.

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Ugo Rondinone’s Midtown Monoliths

by Allison Meier April 30, 2013April 30, 2013

Continuing the long human tradition of rock stacking, Ugo Rondinone’s contemporary art cairns are now looming around Rockefeller Plaza, casting their colossal shadows beneath Art Deco towers in an attempt to bring some ancient mystery to the busy summer streets.

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