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Public Art Watch
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June 14, 2023
Everybody Loves the New La Guardia Airport. What About the Art?
The airport’s $22 million face-lift breaks away from corporate schlock.
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Max Pearl
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Jan. 20, 2023
The Problem With Boston’s MLK Memorial Isn’t That It Looks Like a Penis
It’s how it reminds us of how little Boston — and other cities — have advanced the civil-rights leader’s racial-justice agenda.
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Diana Budds
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Dec. 6, 2022
Mashed Potatoes Meet Monet
Climate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
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Jerry Saltz
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Aug. 25, 2022
Friends Seminary Is Getting Its Own Turrell ‘Skyspace’
And it will be open to the public.
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Diana Budds
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June 17, 2022
Can Dumbo’s Selfie Street Handle Another Attraction?
Performance artists and TikTok influencers will have to learn to share the cobblestones.
By
Zach Schiffman
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June 14, 2022
What a Wood Boat and a Concrete Chaise Reveal About the African Diaspora
A sculpture exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park explores modern Black identity.
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Diana Budds
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May 2, 2022
Artist Sam Van Aken Wants You to Taste Governors Island–Grown Apples
“I’m hoping you bite into something and you’re like,
Why have I been kept from this?
What sort of compromised existence have I been living?
”
By
Diana Budds
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Mar. 18, 2022
A Memorial to the Atlanta Spa Victims Reimagines the Massage Parlor
An installation by Red Canary Song set up massage tables as altars in Washington Square Park.
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Diana Budds
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Feb. 8, 2022
Theaster Gates Is Bringing Part of a Demolished Chicago Church to London
For his Serpentine Pavilion commission.
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Diana Budds
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Jan. 28, 2022
What’s Going to Happen to All the Art on Rikers?
Faith Ringgold’s mural is heading to the Brooklyn Museum, but it’s not clear where the rest will go.
By
Diana Budds
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Sept. 29, 2021
The Nation’s Monuments Are Male, Pale, and Stale
A new audit makes the case for a more fluid landscape of public memory.
By
Diana Budds
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May 27, 2021
New York’s Storefront Plywood Finds a Second Life
Five public art projects transform the material in citywide installations.
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Diana Budds
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May 18, 2021
Lady Liberty Seems to Want You to Draw Her Like One of Your French Girls
She’s ready for hot vaxx summer.
By
Valeria Ricciulli
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Feb. 23, 2021
Awol Erizku Brings His Afrocentric Symbolic Universe to NYC’s Bus Shelters
Courtesy of a new Public Art Fund exhibition.
By
Diana Budds
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Feb. 8, 2021
Murals on 9 City Buildings Will Help You Process Your Pandemic Feelings
“How we’re experiencing this time is something we’ll be unpacking for years to come.”
By
Diana Budds
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Dec. 7, 2020
At Inwood’s Dyckman Farmhouse, an Illuminating Reminder From Artist Reggie Black
Three blunt words about slavery in New York.
By
Valeria Ricciulli
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Nov. 20, 2020
Artist Shaun Leonardo Is the New Co-Director of Recess
“For change to happen, folks have to move aside and actually allocate power to the people.”
By
Diana Budds
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Nov. 19, 2020
Carrie Mae Weems Made a COVID PSA
Now at Lincoln Center.
By
Diana Budds
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Nov. 10, 2020
The Mary Wollstonecraft Statue in London Is Bad Kitsch Feminism
The shambolic mess looks a Rolls-Royce hood ornament by way of a sketchy Disney
Fantasia
figure.
By
Jerry Saltz
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Nov. 6, 2020
105-Year-Old Artist Carmen Herrera Has a New Mural in East Harlem
And public school students painted it.
By
Diana Budds
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Nov. 2, 2020
See Nick Cave’s New Public Art Project for Election Day
“It’s big and in your face,” said Cave.
By
Trupti Rami
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Oct. 19, 2020
See Shantell Martin’s New Playground Mural
In the Rockaways.
By
Trupti Rami
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Oct. 13, 2020
The Ooh-La-La Fake Feminism of That Big Naked Medusa Statue By the Courthouses
It’ll certainly co-star in endless selfies.
By
Jerry Saltz
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Sept. 22, 2020
How Do We Create an RBG Memorial That Isn’t Terrible?
As Governor Cuomo calls for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue in Brooklyn, we asked people with arts-commission experience where the pitfalls lie.
By
Diana Budds