Art in the Parks Archives

Kevin Quiles Bonilla & Zaq Landsberg Unveil ‘For Centuries, and Still… (anticipated completion) in Harlem Art Park for 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Maria

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artists Kevin Quiles Bonilla and Zaq Landsberg created For centuries, and still… (anticipated completion) for Harlem Art Park. In the background, the art installation ‘Growth’ and behind, the historic Harlem courthouse. Photo credit: Zaq Landsberg

Save the Date, Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 1-2pm, meet the artists. The Event, “Afternoon Tertulia: Harlem Art Park” is part of Centro 50. This is a Free Event – Register Here. Update, Due to weather ~ The Event has been moved indoors to Casabe Houses Community Room right next door.

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Leaning as if falling into the sea, artists Kevin Quiles Bonilla and Zaq Landsberg reimagined a garita from the historic fortresses of Old San Juan, hammered by hurricanes on the fifth anniversary year of Hurricane Maria.

We were on site at the East Harlem Art Park for the installation of For centuries, and still... (anticipated completion).

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‘Present Histories’ Continues to Grow in Harlem Art Park

Art in the Parks, Art Installation, East Harlem

Along the Eastern Wall of the East Harlem Art Park, Kathleen Granados, Present Histories: An East Harlem Photo Album (as of November 27, 2018)

The Marcus Garvey Park Alliance Public Art Initiative is pleased to announce the unveiling of the next Art in the Parks: Active Open Space site-specific installation Present Histories: An East Harlem Photo Album by the artist Kathleen Granados.

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B. Wurtz: Kitchen Trees Arrives in City Hall Park

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B. Wurtz ‘Kitchen Trees’ in City Hall Park via Public Art Fund

Public Art Fund will unveil its third summer 2018 installation this week in City Hall Park. The installations, entitled Kitchen Trees are the creation of the artist B. Wurtz.

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NYC Public Art Map & Guide

Art in the Parks

Take advantage of art outside the walls in New York City Parks with the Parks Department Public Art Map and Guide. Permanent art and monuments, as well as temporary art installations are noted.

Public Art Fund Brings a Hot Dog Bus to DUMBO!

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Erwin Wurm: Hot Dog Bus. Image via Public Art Fund

We can’t wait for Public Art Fund’s next ~ Installation. Erwin Wurm: Hot Dog Bus will pull into Brooklyn Bridge Park on June 9th!

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Dream Street Park ~ East Harlem

Art in the Parks, East Harlem, El Barrio, Graffiti, Street Art

Who wouldn’t want to live on ~ Dream Street. Well, in this case, we’re on 124th Street between Second and Third Avenues ~ and the dreamy mural is a depiction of a multi-cultural city painted by local children, most of them homeless.

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Monumental Women ~ Unveiling Ceremony Livestream on August 26, 2020

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Unveiling of the Monument, August 26, 2020

It’s here! It arrived at sunrise on August 15th, shrink-wrapped and covered.

We joined Monumental Women in the unveiling ceremony livestream on August 26th at 7:45am filmed on Literary Walk. Below are a few images taken from Livestream.

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Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York at Museum of the City of New York

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Isamu Noguchi, Red Cube, 140 Broadway, c.1970, photo by Edmund Vincent Gillon, Museum of the City of New York

Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York will open at the Museum of the City of New York on November 10th. Look back on 50 years at an exhibition featuring renderings, models, photographs, and video footage of public artworks by such artists as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Red Grooms, and Kara Walker.

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