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193 Flags Celebrating NYC Food Culture Go Up at Rockefeller Center

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

The flags of UN member states that typically line the Rink now depict bagels, pizza slices, and local restaurants in a new partnership with the food rescue organization City Harvest.

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Mexican Artists Take Over Rock Center For Day of the Dead

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 30, 2022October 31, 2022

A catrina of Frida Kahlo, colorful alebrijes, and José Guadalupe Posada’s satirical skeletons are among the unmissable works on view.

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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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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.

Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368–1911
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Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368–1911

Over 100 masterworks by 59 artists spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties are on view at China Institute Gallery in New York.

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