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 2018_NY_NYC_Art_Armors | 4 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art Fund: Armors (by Steinunn Thorarinsdottir) @ Cloisters
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, “Armors”
Icelandic artist Thorarinsdottir goes medieval at the Cloisters with her surreal sculptural installation. It features three different pairings of an androgynous figure with a suit of armor from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection that had been 3D scanned before it... |
| 2016_NY_NYC_City_Hall_LT | 24 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art Fund: The Language of Things @ City Hall
The Language of Things
On View: June 29, 2016 - September 29, 2016
"There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in someway partake in language, for it is in the nature of each one to communicate its mental contents."
-- Walter Benjamin, ‘On language as Such and... |
| 2016_NY_NYC_Art_Cool_Globes | 44 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Cool Globes exhibit @ Battery Park
Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, is a public art exhibition designed to raise awareness of solutions to climate change. Cool Globes grew out of a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, and was incorporated as a non-profit organization... |
| 2018_NY_NYC_Art_Ell_Column | 6 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Elliptical Column (by Tony Cragg) |
| 2017_NY_NYC_Art_Funseetz | 8 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Fun Seetz (by Eleanora Kupencow)
Six colorful sculptures depicting faces, figures and animals are currently perched on the Pearl Street Triangle on Old Fulton Street in DUMBO. Artist Eleanor Kupencow was inspired by the iconography of Mayan, Aboriginal, and Native American art, with a touch of Modern Art, when creating the installation... |
| 2001_NY_Madison_SqPk_Taxi | 4 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: I (heart) Taxi (by Navin Rawanchaikul) @ Madison Square Park
On View: May 31, 2001 – Sep 30, 2001
Navin Rawanchaikul, I (heart) Taxi
Navin Rawanchaikul's I (heart) Taxi project includes comic books, taxi tents, benches, and a food stand, all of which depict a collage of stories Rawanchaikul (b.1971, Chiang Mai, Thailand) collected from New York taxi drivers.... |
| 2016_NY_NYC_Art_Metronome | 6 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Metronome (by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel) @ Union Square |
| 2018_NY_NYC_Art_Metronome | 4 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Metronome (by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel) @ Union Square |
| 2018_NY_Union_Sq_Crystal | 1 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Rose Crystal Tower (by Dale Chihuly) @ Union Square Park
Dale Chihuly, Rose Crystal Tower
October 6, 2017 to October 5, 2018
The Rose Crystal Tower stands 31-feet tall and is composed of Polyvitro crystals and steel. Polyvitro—an invention of Chihuly Studio—is the artist’s term for a plastic material which he casts into individual chunks which resemble... |
| 2019_NY_NYC_Art_TensionD | 3 | NY -- NYC -- Public Art: Tension Scupture D (by Joseph La Piana)
Joseph La Piana
Tension Sculpture D, 2019
March-July, 2019
#ArtIntheParks |
| 2016_NY_Times_Square_Fancy | 63 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: A Fancy Animal Carnival (by Hung Yi) @ Garment District
A flight of whimsy arrived on the Broadway Pedestrian Plaza in the Garment District yesterday. Titled A Fancy Animal Carnival, these eleven large-scale, colorful sculptures were created by the Taiwanese artist, Hung Yi. Each of the whimsical sculptures reflects folk culture as well as region, and... |
| 2022_NY_CP_Ancestor | 9 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Ancestor (Bharti Kher) @ Central Park
Bharti Kher: Ancestor
On View: Sep 8, 2022 - Aug 27, 2023
Doris C. Freedman Plaza
Bharti Kher (b. 1969, London, United Kingdom) connects New Delhi and New York City with this nearly eighteen-foot-tall bronze universal mother figure, her most ambitious artwork to date. Its source is a miniature... |
| 2016_NY_Madison_SqPk_BB | 7 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Big Bling (by Martin Puryear) @ Madison Square Park
May 16, 2016 - April 2, 2017
MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY’S MAD. SQ. ART ANNOUNCES MAJOR COMMISSIONED OUTDOOR EXHIBITION FOR SPRING 2016 BY RENOWNED AMERICAN SCULPTOR MARTIN PURYEAR
Big Bling, a forty-foot high, temporary multi-tier structure will be Mad. Sq. Art’s thirty-third public art... |
| 2011_NY_Circle_Animals | 40 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads sculpture (by Ai Weiwei) @ The Plaza
Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads
Bronze, 2010
Ai Weiwei, artist
On view: May 2, 2011 - July 15, 2011
Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is the first major public art sculpture by celebrated contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Comprised on 12 bronze animal heads, each weighing approximately 800... |
| 2019_NY_Madison_SqPk_City | 16 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: City in the Grass (by Leonardo Drew) @ Madison Square Park
Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass
Madison Square Park Conservancy has commissioned Leonardo Drew to create a monumental new public art project for the Park opening this spring. Marking the Conservancy’s 38th commissioned exhibition and the artist’s most ambitious work to date, City in the Grass will... |
| 2016_NY_CP_Shrigley_Memorial | 4 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: David Shrigley's Memorial @ Central Park
David Shrigley: MEMORIAL
On View: September 8, 2016 to February 12, 2017
Across the centuries, memorials have acted as public sites of collective remembrance and markers of our shared cultural heritage. Some monuments continue to hold a contemporary significance, while others have become obsolete in... |
| 2018_NY_Madison_SqPk_DM | 10 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Delirious Matter (by Diana Al-Hadid) @ Madison Square Park
We are pleased to announce Mad. Sq. Art’s thirty-sixth exhibition, Delirious Matter by artist Diana Al-Hadid, on view from May 14, 2018 through September 3, 2018. Six new sculptures will be installed across Madison Square Park’s central Oval Lawn, peripheral lawns, and northern reflecting pool.... |
| 2023_NY_Time_Square_Echoes | 9 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: ECHOES: A Voice From Uncharted Waters (by Mathias Gmachl) @ Garment District
ECHOES: A Voice From Uncharted Waters
Mathias Gmachl
Broadway, 39th & 40th
September 12, 2023 - November 13, 2023
Garment District Plaza
Emerging from the depths beyond our terrestrial comprehension is our latest sculpture installation, Echoes - A Voice From Uncharted Waters.
Created by by... |
| 2017_NY_CP_Fences | 6 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (by Ai Weiwei) @ Central Park
On View: October 12, 2017 - February 11, 2018
Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Ai Weiwei conceived this multi-site, multi-media exhibition for public spaces, monuments, buildings, transportation sites, and advertising platforms throughout New York City. Collectively, these elements comprise... |
| 2003_NY_Madison_SqPk_Gothic | 3 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Gothic: Caterpillar & Chantier (by Wim Delvoye) @ Madison Square Park
Wim Delvoye's Gothic: Caterpillar & Chantier
On View Jun 27, 2003 – Sep 30, 2003
In Wim Delvoye's Gothic, divine merges with secular, past meets present, and ornament overcomes strict functionality. In his life-size replicas of Caterpillar excavators, Delvoye (b.1965, Wervik, Belgium) juxtaposes... |
| 2022_NY_Times_Square_Here | 22 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Here (by Santi Flores) @ Garment District
Put Your Hands in the Air and Raise Your Eyes to the Skies as Broadway Reveals Art and Soul
by Sarah BelingApril 13, 2022
Wave hello to Broadway’s groovy new artworks! Now’s a great time to catch two brand-new, innovative art installations in Times Square and the Garment District for an instant... |
| 2016_NY_Union_Sq_Morphous | 7 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Morphous (by Lionel Smit) @ Union Square Park
Lionel Smit, MORPHOUS
June 13, 2016 to April 30, 2017
Union Square Park, Manhattan
Description:
MORPHOUS is an exploration of hybrid identity and its ever-changing nature within South Africa’s social landscape. This bronze sculpture, featuring the conjoined heads of two outward-gazing young women,... |
| 2023_NY_CP_Parabolic | 6 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Parabolic Light (Fred Eversley) @ Central Park
Fred Eversley: Parabolic Light
Sep 7, 2023 - Aug 25, 2024
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park
Fred Eversley (b. 1941, Brooklyn, NY) is a pioneer of the Light and Space art movement, which originated in Southern California in the 1960s. Interested in science as a teen, he experimented by casting... |
| 2019_NY_Times_Square_Rumors | 27 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Rumors of War (by Kehinde Wiley) @ Times Square
Rumors of War
September 27 – December 1, 2019
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley’s first monumental public sculpture, Rumors of War, will be on display this fall on the Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets.
Following its presentation in Times Square, Rumors of War will be permanently installed on... |
| 2019_NY_CP_Horses | 22 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: The Horses (Jean-Marie Appriou) @ Central Park
Jean-Marie Appriou: The Horses
On View Sep 11, 2019 - Aug 30, 2020
Jean-Marie Appriou’s massive equine sculptures stand like surreal sentinels at the entrance to Central Park. The artist was inspired by the horses nearby who pull tourists in carriages through the city and by Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s... |
| 2019_NY_CP_Tilted_Head | 15 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Tilted Head (Mark Manders) @ Central Park
Mark Manders: Tilted Head
On View Mar 6, 2019 - Sep 1, 2019
Mark Manders’ Tilted Head is a work of fiction. It has the appearance of unfired clay combined with everyday objects but in fact is made entirely of cast bronze. The cracks and fissures that cover its surface imply an organic process of... |
| 2018_NY_CP_Shonibare | 5 | NY -- NYC -- Temporary Art: Wind Sculpture (SG) I (by Yinka Shonibare) @ Central Park
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Wind Sculpture (SG) I
Mar 7, 2018 – Oct 14, 2018
One of Britain’s best-known contemporary artists, Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962, London) spent his childhood between England and Nigeria. He settled permanently in London in the early 1980s, where he attended art school. Shonibare... |