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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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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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.
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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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.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund Inc. (The Statue Fund) is commissioning and endowing a monument in Central Park honoring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, pioneers in the battle for Woman Suffrage and the movement for women’s rights, scheduled for installation in 2020.
The Statue Fund announced that, after a March 18th Public Hearing, the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously for conceptual approval of our Stanton and Anthony Statue on The Mall in Central Park. Needless to say, we are very happy and certainly appreciate all the hard work of our Board Members and supporters who made this wonderful day possible. We will keep you posted as events unfold.
And the winner is ~ Announced July 19, 2018 the winner is the artist Meredith Bergmann, with her sculpture of suffragettes Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The sculpture will go up in 2020 on the Literary Walk on the Central Park Mall.
While we wait, the exhibit of the winning design for the Stanton and Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument will be on view through August 26th ~ Women’s Equality Day ~ at the New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West on the first floor.
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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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What a Wonderful World by artist Leonard Ursachi in Tribeca Park
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