In collaboration with the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance and NYC Parks, FLUX Public Art Projects has brought over three dozen arresting sculptures and installations — all rich with cultural references — to Marcus Garvey Park. Pictured above is Bayeté Ross Smith, Got the Power: Boomboxes. Here are several more:
Jordan Baker-Caldwell, Golem
Jack Howard Potter, Belvedere Torso
Richard Vivenzio, Untitled
Suprina, DNA Totem. close-up
Jason Wallace, Crosshairs
Capucine Bourcart, Trompe l’oeil
Bob Clyatt, (E)scape
Photo credits: 1, 3 & 6 City-as-School intern Sol Raxlen; 2 Lois Stavsky 4, 5, 7 & 8 Tara Murray
Note: Hailed in a range of media from the Huffington Post to the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available for Android devices here.
As the line between street art and public art continues to blur, we find ourselves increasingly intrigued by the range of public art that surfaces in NYC parks. What follows is a sampling of what we’ve captured these past few months in Battery Park.
German sculptor Fritz Koenig, the Sphere, the sole surviving artwork from the grounds of the original World Trade Center
Ned Smyth, The Upper Room, close-up
British artist Tony Cragg, Resonating Bodies (one of two bronze sculptures resembling giant musical instruments)
Jim Dine, The Ape & Cat (at the Dance)
Constance Mallinson, Souvenir (fragment) for the Cool Globes traveling exhibition
Nancy L Steinmeyer First We Scream, Then We Are for the Cool Globes traveling exhibition
Photo credits: 1-5 Dani Reyes Mozeson; 6 Tara Murray
Note: Hailed in a range of media from the Huffington Post to the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available here for Android devices.
