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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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2025
Brooklyn
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
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
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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.
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.
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.
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