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Through collaborations with a diverse group of arts organizations and artists, Parks brings to the public both experimental and traditional art in many park locations. Please browse our list of current exhibits and our archives of past exhibits below. You can also see past grant opportunities or read more about the Art in the Parks Program.
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Current Exhibits
Bronx
Habitat Workshop, MUD Workshop & Sighte Studio, SAIL
August 20, 2024 to December 31, 2024
Lou Gehrig Plaza, Bronx
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SAIL resembles the energetic, upward motion of the wind looking onto the Harlem River, capturing the spirit of the Bronx. The installation uses shade, seating, and color to create a lively gathering place. Developed along with neighborhood residents, merchants, and community partners, SAIL will be the epicenter of local activities throughout the year.
Morris Park Business Improvement District and Limbic Media, The Pulse
June 4, 2024 to November 30, 2024
Loreto Playground, Bronx
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The Pulse consists of two intertwining light strings with a central heart piece. It is customizable to change colors according to occasion and time of the year, holiday, and cultural celebrations. The Morris Park Business Improvement District was awarded a Commercial District Lighting Grant by the NYC Department of Small Business Services to address commercial district lighting improvements in the Morris Park Avenue commercial district in the Bronx. As a central point of attraction for the Morris Park Avenue corridor and surrounding community, Loreto Park plays a very important role for social and cultural activities, and as a community gathering space.
This exhibition is presented by the Morris Park Business Improvement District.
Brooklyn
Sally Rumble, Vibrant Echoes
August 10, 2024 to August 9, 2025
Crispus Attucks Playground, Brooklyn
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This vibrant mural features a dynamic array of abstract shapes and bold colors, creating a lively and engaging visual experience. The design incorporates sweeping curves and organic forms in shades of pink, green, red, yellow, and white. The interplay of colors and shapes evokes a sense of movement and energy, reflecting the diverse and dynamic spirit of the community. This exhibition is presented by FAB Fulton with support from NYC Small Business Services, Corigin Real Estate, and Bati Kitchen.
George Boorujy, Red Hook, Brooklyn Mural Trail: Anchoring People and Wildlife
July 8, 2024 to July 7, 2025
Red Hook Park, Brooklyn
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Red Hook, Brooklyn Mural Trail: Anchoring People and Wildlife is a colorful, vibrant display of the native plant and bird species that frequent Red Hook Park. The mural starts on Bay Street, spanning from Hicks Street to Clinton Street. It then wraps around the corner, incorporating the perimeter of Clinton Street between Bay Street and Halleck Street. As this is a collaborative effort with the Audubon Mural Project, many of the birds will be climate-threatened as indicated in Audubon’s ‘Survival By Degrees’ report. This exhibition is presented Red Hook Conservancy, National Audubon Society Mural Project, Gitler &_____, and the Monarch Foundation.
Community Heroes
July 19, 2024 to June 30, 2025
Commodore Barry Park, Brooklyn
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Community Heroes aims to bring together residents in the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Farragut, and celebrate those who empower and nourish these neighborhoods. Individuals were selected as representatives of the community, or heroes, from a pool of nominations collected during a community outreach process. Community Heroes seeks to tell the stories of the neighborhoods’ unsung heroes through the collaboration of newer residents and long-time residents, often people of color whose families have lived in the community for generations. Community Heroes continues to collect nominations for heroes and seeks photographers to take their portraits.
Angelly Perez, Jaden Ruffin, and Rosana Zapata (Red Hook Art Project), Safe Space in the Parks
June 28, 2024 to June 25, 2025
Bush-Clinton Playground, Brooklyn
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The Red Hook Houses NeighborhoodSTAT resident stakeholder team co-designed this fence mural with youth from New Leader Hoops and emerging artists from the Red Hook Art Project. This small park renovation aims to address physical space issues raised by community residents during the 2023 Local NeighborhoodSTAT participatory budgeting process.
Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School, A Celebration of Native Plants
June 25, 2024 to June 24, 2025
18th Street Pocket Park, Brooklyn
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Since 2020, each of the school’s graduating 8th grade classes has researched the history of the Prospect Expressway and its impact on local communities. The students have made observations of other nearby parks to inform plant selection, written letters to community members with proposed plans asking for feedback, created scale models of the pocket parks, researched native plants that would grow well in the pocket park’s environment, designed a garden, planted, and repainted the park. Throughout this project, students reflect on how they were including stakeholders and engaging with multiple perspectives and planning with a future mindset. This mural is a testament to environmental and social sustainability work being done by students at BUGS.
This exhibition is presented by the Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Albert Capsouto Park, Manhattan
Queensbridge Park, Queens
American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is an Augmented Reality (AR) installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer, giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails, placed at historical sites throughout the United States.
Bryce Peterson, Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn
June 8, 2024 to June 7, 2025
Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn
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The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn is a traveling art installation that serves as a creative commons for artistic expression, public well-being, and collective stewardship. The work features a trellised canopy of edible and native plants, as well as a solar-powered lighting and audio system to support public programming hosted within and around the artwork. Throughout the summer and fall until the end of October, The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn will serve as a publicly accessible venue for the local community, hosting activations including performances, workshops, and wellness offerings. More information on related programming can be found here.
Apex for Youth/Yukiko Izumi, Untitled
June 4, 2024 to June 4, 2025
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
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This site-specific mural by artist Yukiko Izumi was made in collaboration with volunteers of Apex for Youth, a non-profit organization serving low-income and immigrant Asian youth. The artists worked with the volunteers to identify their favorite things about the park which viewers will find depicted in this mural.
This exhibition is presented by Apex for Youth.
Eric Orr and Welder Underground, Rappin' Max Robot
October 30, 2024 to April 30, 2025
Columbus Park, Brooklyn
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Rappin' Max Robot" stands as a tribute to the global journey of hip hop culture and its pivotal role in propelling breaking onto the world stage, culminating in its inclusion in this year's Olympics. Constructed in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the sculpture will make stops In New York City before making its permanent home in Paris. Inspired by Eric Orr's artwork, the sculpture is being constructed through an innovative apprenticeship program that teaches young people from the five boroughs to become certified welders. The new initiative called Welder Underground is a program, created by The Collab-Orators, a Brooklyn-based non-profit.
Various Artists, Global Photo Exhibition-PEACE FOR ALL
October 30, 2024 to January 5, 2025
John Jay Park
Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn
Washington Market Park, Manhattan
Chelsea Green, Manhattan
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Global Photo Exhibition-PEACE FOR ALL is a creative photography exhibition to tell a unique story. The exhibition features a curated collection of striking, joyful, profound photographs from Magnum photographers Cristina de Middel, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Olivia Arthur, who travelled to Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Romania to capture moments of PEACE FOR ALL-funded support activities from their own perspectives. The project is intended as a worldwide reflection on the value of peace. Global Photo Exhibition-PEACE FOR ALL will be held in over 10 major world cities, hosted in public locations over several weeks, and freely accessible to all. The global initiative was first launched in London in September with other participating cities to follow, including New York City.
Molly Gochman, UKR|RUS
October 6, 2024 to December 15, 2024
Asser Levy Park, Brooklyn
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Constructed using an assemblage of reclaimed wood, rubble, and various types of ground surface materials including marble, UKR|RUS recognizes the scars of conflict while simultaneously suggesting the possibility of rebuilding and healing.
Manhattan
Ivan Argote, Dinosaur
October 17, 2024 to April 18, 2026
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the fourth High Line Plinth commission, Ivan Argote presents Dinosaur (2024), a colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum. The meticulously hand-painted, humorous sculpture challenges the grandeur of traditional monuments celebrating significant historical figures, instead choosing to canonize the familiar New York City street bird. Posed on a concrete plinth that resembles the sidewalks and buildings that New York’s pigeons call home, Dinosaur reverses the typical power dynamic between bird and human, towering 21 feet above the Spur, over the countless pedestrians and car drivers that travel down 10th Avenue.
Naomi Lawrence, Superbloom
October 7, 2024 to October 1, 2025
Thomas Jefferson Park, Manhattan
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In California, a “Superbloom” of wildflowers that occurs every 2 to 3 years after record breaking winter rains. This surplus of nutrients leads to a spectacular show of spring wildflowers across barren deserts which can at times be visible from space. Harlem-based artist Naomi Lawrence replicates the naturally occurring event from the other side of the U.S. by crocheting oversized California poppies, blue, purple, arroyo lupine, and bright yellow fiddlenecks, and an array of wildflowers that are known to be part of this phenomenon. The artist’s freehand style allows her to capture the subtle shifts of color that happen in nature.
Kerstin Bratsch, Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Palladiana, Masaico_Bench I)
October 26, 2024 to September 21, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Bratsch presents Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Palladiana, Mosaico_Bench I) (2023-2024), a large-scale site-specific mosaic bench that becomes a “stone painting.” The work is a material translation of one of her Fossil Psychics (stucco marmo) works, in which the painting gesture becomes a body of fossilized fragments, as if the result of geologic phenomena, enshrining the past into the present—like runes, or a fly trapped in amber. Wrapped around an Oregon Green Austrian pine tree, the work offers a moment of respite for parkgoers, quietly urging visitors to reconnect with the natural world that surrounds them on the High Line.
Zeehan Wazed, Ball for Art
September 5, 2024 to September 4, 2025
Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Manhattan
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This group of four murals by artist Zeehan Wazed are set behind the basketball hoops on the Grand Street Basketball Courts in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Together, the murals bring a sense of movement and brightness to the retaining walls surrounding the courts.
Patricia Espinosa, Hourglass
September 28, 2024 to September 3, 2025
Riverside Park, Manhattan
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The Hourglass seeks to address the critical issue of water scarcity. The sculpture takes the form of a giant twisted sponge, resembling an hourglass, that symbolizes the diminishing availability of water. It combines both concepts—sponge & hourglass—seeking to visually, and technically, capture the course of water passing through and running out.
Jeff Sonhouse, Harlequin
September 4, 2024 to September 3, 2025
St. Nicholas Park, Manhattan
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The basketball courts are designed with a diamond-pattern the artist saw while researching artist Pablo Picasso’s paintings of the Harlequin: a comedic, multi-faceted character, usually masked and dressed in diamond-patterned outfits, featured in his works. As a former scholar-athlete, professional basketball player, and currently a fulltime visual artist, Sonhouse chose this pattern to commemorate those individuals, who like the Harlequin were showmen. They inspired him to be more than he imagined was expected of him.
Sydney Shen, SBNO (Standing But Not Operating)
September 28, 2024 to September 3, 2025
Riverside Park South, Manhattan
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As an artist, Shen is interested in ambivalent emotional states such as fear, wonder, pleasure and pain. A roller coaster enthusiast, Shen is particularly fascinated by how theme parks sublimate the thrill of near-death into a form of amusement. Taking the form of something unsettlingly between an anatomical model, a carnival ride, and a metronome, which measure time through beats akin to the human heartbeat, SBNO (Standing But Not Operating) speaks to an innate human desire to be moved–physically and metaphorically–beyond our limits.
Henry Roundtrip Marton Newman, Ectoplasm
September 28, 2024 to September 3, 2025
Riverside Park South, Manhattan
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Consisting of clear acrylic panels etched with life-sized silhouetted figures set within an architectural steel frame, Ectoplasm seeks to mediate the divide between public and private grief—offering an opportunity to reflect on our shared melancholia. The structure abstracts the city and renders it transparent. As the sun moves across the sky, shadowy reflections of the figures are cast, reforming and disappearing with the sun. Through the sculpture, the divides between interior and exterior, material and immaterial, gone and present, are blurred.
Malin Abrahamsson, Moon Finder
September 28, 2024 to September 3, 2025
Riverside Park, Manhattan
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Moon Finder is a public sculpture and orientation device. Aligned with the ecliptic—the broad, dynamic celestial belt where the Sun, Moon, and planets orbit through space—it reflects Earth’s emerging position and astronomical relationships within the solar system. Combining elements of science and engineering with the moon’s symbolism as an object of longing and desire, Moon Finder acts as both a literal and metaphorical navigation tool, pointing to this location in Riverside Park and your presence in the cosmos.
Edra Soto, Graft
September 5, 2024 to August 24, 2025
Doris Freedman Plaza, Central Park, Manhattan
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Made from corten steel and terrazzo, Graft is a monument to working class Puerto Rican communities and Soto’s first sculpture inspired by a specific house façade. Tables and seating invite visitors to enjoy a moment of rest, connection, and reflection. The sculpture creates a threshold, with one side representing a home’s exterior; the other, the more intimate atmosphere of an interior. The work’s title addresses Soto’s complex sentiments around migrating to Chicago while remaining connected to Puerto Rico. For Soto, feelings of dislocation are compounded by the island’s ambiguous status as an unincorporated territory of the United States. Graft opens connections between Puerto Rican communities across the city and reminds us of the centrality of the Caribbean to the history of New York City and the United States.
Beatrice Coron, Bloomingdale Medallions
August 16, 2024 to August 15, 2025
Various Locations, Manhattan
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This series of seven stainless steel medallions honors Bloomingdale neighborhood residents who have shaped our world, including The Malagon Sisters, musical group; Ben E. King, musician; Duke Ellington, musician; Bernardo Palombo, musician; Ismael Rivera, musician; Alvin Ailey, dancer and chorographer; and Angelo Romano, artist. Over the course of a year, the exhibition will rotate between three neighborhood parks: Booker T. Washington Playground (August 16, 2024 to December 12, 2024), Happy Warrior Playground (December 13, 2024 to April 10, 2025), and Frederick Douglass Playground (April 11, 2025 to August 15, 2025).
Arthur Simms, A Totem for the High Line
August 31, 2024 to August 3, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Simms creates a new site-specific sculpture, A Totem for the High Line. In addition to materials that have become core to his body of work—wood, rope, and personal objects—A Totem for the High Line. also speaks directly to its site, both on the High Line and in New York City. The work incorporates a decommissioned utility pole found on Randall's Island, assorted cables, and discarded license plates from various states—perhaps a reference to the many visitors that flock to New York and the High Line. By integrating these elements, Simms continues his practice of entangling and reusing objects to emphasize the various histories and meanings they carry. The work stands as an homage to transformation and the perpetual unfolding of our past, present, and future.
The Black Fives Foundation, New York Rens Commemorative Court
June 26, 2024 to June 25, 2025
Howard Bennett Park, Manhattan
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The mural honors the legendary New York Rens, formed in Harlem in 1923 as the first Black-owned, all-Black, fully professional basketball team in history. From their debut on November 3, 1923 through 1949 when they dissolved, the Rens annually scheduled 130 games on average, winning 85%, the equivalent of an NBA team winning 70 games a season for 25 years in a row. Yet, there was no site in Harlem that commemorated and celebrated this Hall of Fame team, until now.
Na Chainkua Reindorf, Gaze
June 25, 2024 to June 24, 2025
Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
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Gaze depicts a stylized eye which is a recurring symbol in Reindorf’s work. Typically shown as a canton in the upper left quadrant of her flag paintings, the unblinking eye also shows up within the paintings in unexpected ways, alongside female figures whose only distinct facial feature are unblinking eyes which stare back at the audience. Considering how female bodies can especially be objectified in and outside of art, the eye is intentionally repeated across Reindorf’s works to provide the depicted female figures an opportunity to confront the audience as well as counteract the prevalent male gaze.
This exhibition is presented by Glossier.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Albert Capsouto Park, Manhattan
Queensbridge Park, Queens
American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is an Augmented Reality (AR) installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer, giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails, placed at historical sites throughout the United States.
Teresa Solar-Abboud, Birth of Islands
July 13, 2024 to June 15, 2025
High Line, Manhattan
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Birth of Islands, is composed of slick, blade-like foam-coated resin elements that emanate outward from the pores of a muddy, gray ceramic stump. When visiting New York, Solar-Abboud was struck by the landscape—building after building rising from the soil in a fight for prominence, just as vegetation in the forest combats for sunlight in order to survive. Birth of Islands refers to this competitive ecosystem, while also evoking human anatomy: two yellow, tongue-like emanations have seemingly tunneled their way from underground onto the High Line. The forms are spoon-like in their appearance, concave or convex, depending on one’s vantage point. The result appears simultaneously post-human and primordial, sophisticated and elementary—a representation of our own unending transformation alongside nature's ever evolving state. This exhibition is presented by the High Line.
Immanuel Oni, Halo
June 22, 2024 to June 15, 2025
M'finda Kulunga Garden, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Manhattan
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At night, African-Americans during the 1800s were required to carry a candle or lantern on the street after curfew in order for people/police to see them. This was known as the "lantern law". This project reclaims this archaic form of surveillance by illuminating Black spaces, starting with the M Finda Kalunga Garden. Using existing infrastructure, the artwork embeds symbols and narratives into and around the perimeter. Like a halo, a decorated light shade is wrapped around a lightpost emanating light, African textile patterns, names of those buried or other related text. The fencing also portrays African symbols connecting it to the other Chamber's Street Burial Ground. Information such as maps are integrated to show other potential sites of remembrance, like the Freeman Alley.
Oliver Lee Jackson, A Journey
June 14, 2024 to May 25, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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The works on view on the High Line were produced by the artist for this exhibition. Since 2020 Jackson has constructed several monumental, slotted steel sculptures, largely based on smaller works of his from the late 1990s. The artist honors his utilitarian material, and yet the painted, cut, and pockmarked surfaces animate the sculptures beyond their material properties. On view at the Western Rail Yards, Oliver Lee Jackson’s energetic work complements the section’s simple gravel pathway and original self-seeded, wild landscape.
This exhibition is presented by Friends of the High Line.
Jerome Haferd, Aleia
May 24, 2024 to May 23, 2025
Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan
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Aleia marks the second phase of interactive public artworks for the Culture, Creativity, and Care initiative by Harlem Grown. These public artworks play an important role in the community, doubling as spaces for respite, gathering, and connection. Aleia, a name that has multicultural origins meaning “ascendant”, and “exalted,” was chosen for the piece, which sits high atop the Mt. Morris Acropolis at the center of Marcus Garvey Park.
The main structure is shaped and sits atop a 32-foot semi-circular stage. Inspired by Sankofa’s modular system, the design conceptually breaks apart and reaches out, allowing for several pieces of Aleia to form a meandering Storywalk of steel totems that lead park goers up the stairs to the new installation. The centerpiece of the bright and youthful design are five paintings by the Harlem-based artist, Thomas Heath.
This exhibition is sponsored by Harlem Grown’s Culture Creativity & Care Initiative.
Bruno Catalano, Travel to New York
May 18, 2024 to May 17, 2025
E. 34th to E. 39th Streets
Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan
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This exhibition of nine monumental sculptures features new bronze and marble pieces from French sculptor Bruno Catalano‘s "Travellers" series. The works pay particular attention to the relationship between sculpture and the textiles, folds, and colors that are key features of Catalano’s work. Models of bags, luggage and suitcases, as well as garments, and even the artist's clay-covered aprons allow the public a view behind the scenes of creation.
This exhibition is presented by Galeries Bartoux, Patrons of Park Avenue, and the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association.
Lee Tal, Blooming Reflections
May 11, 2024 to May 10, 2025
Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan
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A series of five sculptures placed throughout Stuyvesent Square, Blooming Reflections celebrates indigenous plants and highlights the efforts of community members to bring these types of flora back to the park. The sculptures are silhouetted depictions of several species of flowers: Iris Versicolor, Purple Clematis, Smooth White Beardtongue, Swamp Rose Mallow, and Yellow Trout Lily. Artist Lee Tal created the works in polished aluminum that reflects the natural surroundings and the viewing audience, reminding us of our interconnectedness. The sculptures are designed to engage the community with beauty but also provide new information on the value of indigenous plantings.
This exhibition is presented by the Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association.
Tishan Hsu, car-grass-screen-2 and car-body-screen-2
May 31, 2024 to April 28, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Hsu presents car-grass-screen-2 and car-body-screen-2, two biomorphic forms constructed out of resin-wrapped foam. The cars’ shapes, with their soft edges and curved surfaces, appear entirely organic but for their glitching, screen-like skins. In the skin of car-grass-screen-2, Hsu includes a scannable QR code, which directly connects the sculptural form to both the virtual and physical realm—via the interface of the phone and the viewer’s hand holding the phone. Scanning the code prompts a video that echoes the grass and perforated metal screen featured on the sculpture’s surface, layered with peephole-style footage of grass, soil, and human skin and orifices. The ability to change the content connected to the QR code from virtual space reinforces Hsu’s interest in hybridity, in which the work is both fixed and open-ended, physical and cyber.
This exhibition is presented by the High Line.
Giulia Cenci, secondary forest
April 20, 2024 to March 31, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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The sculptural installation is composed of animal, human, and plant forms cast from aluminum, sprouting from a steel grid armature. This amalgamation of organic and industrial materials reflects the history of the Meatpacking District’s meat trade and the High Line’s role in that industry. Cenci also reflects on the blurred line between humans and all other forms of life. The work’s title, a term used in botany to describe a forest or woodland area that has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, allows viewers to reconsider their own impact on and relationship to the cycle of life.
This exhibition is presented by the High Line.
Mike Hansel, Intestinal Fortitude
August 15, 2024 to March 28, 2025
Canal Park, Manhattan
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This arching steel tubular structure reaches in multiple directions while implying a lively quality of implied motion. Viewers can follow the sculpture's construction method, as there is no attempt to disguise or hide the fabrication process.
Sean Scully, Broadway Shuffle
July 12, 2024 to March 16, 2025
Broadway Malls, Manhattan
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Seven large-scale sculptures - each one a unique vertical stack composed from various configurations of metal, stone and wood - will be presented at seven locations along the green medians at the center of Broadway from Lincoln Square to Washington Heights. The artist recently said: "Broadway is legendary, and it has been mythologized in art and song. I called my project 'Shuffle' after a dance, in the same way that Mondrian, another geometric immigrant, called his painting 'Boogie Woogie' I love the idea of my blocks and stacks punctuating the endless rhythm of Broadway."
Nicole Eisenman, Fixed Crane
October 24, 2024 to March 9, 2025
Madison Square Park, Manhattan
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Fixed Crane features a toppled industrial crane embellished with handmade sculptural objects. Parkgoers can walk around the deflated machine, a mighty symbol of construction prowess and urban growth that now rests impotently on the park’s Oval Lawn. Rather than reach valiantly into the sky, the once imperious 1969 Link-Belt crane has capsized, provocatively challenging our notions of betterment. The crane’s original counterweight and interior mechanisms become benches for seating as the artist daylights what was once hidden in the machine’s interior. Viewers can look at the fallen crane–once a commanding, necessary force for building, but now in stasis.
Myles Zhang and Stephen Fan, Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Chinatown's Public Realm
January 27, 2024 to January 19, 2025
Columbus Park, Manhattan
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Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown’s Public Realm is a collaboration by artist and architectural historian Myles Zhang and architect/designer Stephan Fan. This project explores the blurred boundaries between Chinatown’s public and private spaces in a graphic installation formulated and executed through various community-engagement efforts over the past two years. It is a horizontal map that presents iconic elements of Chinatown’s streetscapes. The streetscape draws familiar, if not legendary, scenes woven together in segments to suggest the many layers of human activation and experience of these vibrant congested historic streets.
This exhibition is presented by CALL / City as Living Laboratory.
Various Artists, Global Photo Exhibition-PEACE FOR ALL
October 30, 2024 to January 5, 2025
John Jay Park
Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn
Washington Market Park, Manhattan
Chelsea Green, Manhattan
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Global Photo Exhibition-PEACE FOR ALL is a creative photography exhibition to tell a unique story. The exhibition features a curated collection of striking, joyful, profound photographs from Magnum photographers Cristina de Middel, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Olivia Arthur, who travelled to Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Romania to capture moments of PEACE FOR ALL-funded support activities from their own perspectives. The project is intended as a worldwide reflection on the value of peace. Global Photo Exhibition-PEACE FOR ALL will be held in over 10 major world cities, hosted in public locations over several weeks, and freely accessible to all. The global initiative was first launched in London in September with other participating cities to follow, including New York City.
Andrea Arroyo, ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity
September 27, 2024 to November 30, 2024
Anibal Aviles Playground, Manhattan
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Art as Solidarity is an ongoing series of artworks created in response to issues that touch us every day. The works reflect the universal values of love, justice, equality, and peace and aim to build bridges across borders, languages, and cultures and generate dialogue about issues relevant to both the local and global levels.
Lily van der Stokker, Thank You Darling
November 12, 2023 to November 30, 2024
The High Line, Manhattan
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Van der Stokker presents Thank You Darling, a monumental, site-specific mural. The light blue background is dotted with multi-colored, simple flowers in a decorative all-over pattern that appear to float across the facade. Superimposed over this, read the words “THANK YOU DARLiNG,” spelled out in a juvenile, arbitrary blend of lower and upper-case lettering. Van der Stokker’s puffy bubble-letters are a classic example of playful adolescent penmanship, seemingly lifted right out of a teenager’s diary. Thank You Darling actively engages with its audience, expressing gratitude to all those who pass, while reclaiming, at massive scale, intimate language that is often mocked or disparaged as being feminine and unserious.
This exhibition is presented by Friends of the High Line.
Queens
Annalisa Iadicicco, BUMPERMAN
October 25, 2024 to October 25, 2025
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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Bumperman, a life-sized superhero sculpture made from recycled car bumpers and auto parts, stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and renewal, celebrating the redevelopment of Willets Point. Created by artist Annalisa Iadicicco, this striking figure honors the area’s vibrant history as a hub for affordable auto repairs, paying tribute to the hardworking immigrant community that defined it. Now, as Willets Point undergoes a transformation into a mixed-use community, Bumperman reminds us of its enduring spirit.
Drew Seskunas, What Is the Opposite of a Black Hole?
October 8, 2024 to October 7, 2025
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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If a black hole absorbs all light and information surrounding it, the opposite would project light and propagate information. This sculpture celebrates the rich history of science in Queens by highlighting residents who worked to expand our understanding of the universe, casting light where before there was darkness. The artwork honors the contributions of Queens-born scientists Dr. Joseph Weinberg, Dr. Lisa Randall, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, Dr. Eugenie Clark, Dr. Ivan R. King, and Dr. Arthur Cooper.
Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Richmond Hill Art Hub
September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2025
Lt. Frank McConnell Park, Queens
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A collaboration between Chhaya CDC and two NYC-based design firms, Hive Public Space and Studio For, this vibrant multi-use park installation celebrates Richmond Hill's diverse cultural heritage. It takes the form of a community stage for events, classes, and gatherings, adorned with colors inspired by neighbors' homeland flags. This installation aims to activate the space, showcase local culture, engage residents, and promote long-term preservation of cultural identity in public spaces.
Kenny Greenberg, Lumina Arcana
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025
Vernon Mall and Gordon Triangle, Queens
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Created by Long Island City-based neon light artist Kenny, each pergola of Lumina Arcana is built from wooden materials and metal railings, adorned with vibrant neon lighting. These installations are strategically placed at Vernon Mall and Gordon Triangle to transform under-lit areas into lively, inviting spaces. The project aims to boost the visibility and allure of Vernon Boulevard, especially at night, encouraging increased foot traffic and supporting local businesses along the corridor. The Long Island City Partnership was awarded a Commercial District Lighting Grant by the NYC Department of Small Business Services to address commercial district lighting improvements in the Vernon Boulevard commercial district.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Albert Capsouto Park, Manhattan
Queensbridge Park, Queens
American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is an Augmented Reality (AR) installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer, giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails, placed at historical sites throughout the United States.
Leonard Ursachi, Peace Like a River
October 25, 2024 to April 26, 2025
Hunter's Point South, Queens
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Peace Like a River is an installation of sculptures, identical except for their colors. Each is cast in concrete from a mold Ursachi made from a large piece of driftwood he salvaged from the East River, steps from his DUMBO studio and downstream from Hunter’s Point South Park.
Queens Lighting Collective, Gateways to Sunnyside
August 9, 2024 to December 2, 2024
Sabba Park, Queens
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Gateway to Sunnyside greets visitors with joy as they enter or exit the Sunnyside neighborhood. It was designed and created in collaboration with the Sunnyside community for the Sunnyside Public Space Project under the Urban Design Forum’s Local Center Connected Corridors program. The goal of the project is to make public spaces in Sunnyside more welcoming and accessible for local residents and merchants while also cultivating local ownership and pride among Sunnyside residents and merchants for their public spaces, while galvanizing support for capital improvements in the area. This exhibition is presented by Sunnyside Shines.
Lily and Honglei, KITES: Portraits of Asian Immigrant Families
September 19, 2024 to November 29, 2024
Rachel Carson Playground, Kissena Corridor Park, Queens
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Resembling the flying kites in the boundless sky, KITES: Portraits of Asian Immigrant Families symbolically portrays the arduous and long journeys immigrants endure. It spotlights the daily life of Asian immigrants in Flushing Chinatown and the connection between people and nature influenced by their cultural heritage. It illustrates immigrant journeys from the first-person perspective, aiming to enhance understanding of the Asian immigrant community in the Flushing area, who urgently needs more representations in NYC’s cultural landscape, and bring joy to all visitors at the popular neighborhood park.
Staten Island
A+A+A & Urechi Oguguo, Abuelita Masala
September 15, 2024 to September 12, 2025
Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island
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Abuelita Masala is a functional art piece named after Afro-Caribbean and Latinx words for ‘grandmother’ to recall a powerful ancestral figure of kindness, versatility and strength. It serves as an information center for a weekly market and a hub for regular arts and culture programming inspired by past activations at the park. Its versatile doors and cabinets can be opened in multiple configurations to host diverse activities. Ultimately, Abuelita Masala acts as an open invitation to the community to discover and engage with local cultural programming as well as artists that represent the Afro-Caribbean and Latin heritage on site.
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