Public Art

Greg Wyatt is the sculptor, primarily working in caste bronze, in residence at The Cathedral of St. John The Divine.

Ellis Gallagher is a native New Yorker who creates chalk etchings of shadows of everyday, urban street objects.

The Eldridge Street Synagogue would have been destroyed had it not been for the efforts of a few dedicated preservationists.

This google map contains the major public art works that will be up during summer 2008. This map will continue to grow with more permanent and temporary installations. If you have a suggestion for the map (outdoor art preferred), please post it in the comments and we will add it.

Eliasson talks about his Waterfalls project and about the construction and conceptualization of the project.

In this clip from New York Voices, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude talk about their 26-year effort to bring about a major art installation in Central Park.

David Byrne transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.”

The machines in the truck were programmed to record the colors, volume of sound and voices, and weather of each individual location and transcribe these moments to an abstract visual representation of the environment.

Michael Rakowitz’s temporarily reopened family import-export business from Brooklyn to Iraq in Return

Throughout the month of March 2006 Marilyn Minter’s seductive and hyperrealistic photographs towered over four art galleries in Chelsea as spectacular billboards.