Public Art

WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – Justice Reflected (with James Yaya Hough)

Created in partnership with the Art for Justice Fund and the Battery Park City Authority.

Read more in Hyperallergic: NYC Unveils Stained-Glass Works by Formerly Incarcerated Artist

James Yaya Hough has

Within Teardrop Park’s winding paths, up the hillside slopes, under tree canopies and near play areas, visitors encounter subtle and powerful art by Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil. Integrated into the surface of the landscape are four dramatic rock formations, Geologic Sections, that were composed by the artists “to reveal

WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution) (with Autumn Ewalt)

Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution) originally consisted of nine triptychs of graduated heights that appear to rise and fall like abstract mountains, and correspond to the Sun’s path from east to west horizons. Three thousand prisms, installed

WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The Real World (with Tom Otterness)

Taking over its corner of the park with gleeful abandon, Tom Otterness’s whimsical sculptural installation entitled The Real World is one of New York’s most popular public artworks. Cast in bronze, the sculptures feature Otterness’s

Rising from the scenic lawns of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, below the junction of River Terrace and Warren Street, The Pavilion occupies a unique position in the landscape, as if negotiating a common ground between the greensward and the city beyond. Because the structure has no walls, both the

WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – Pylons

Martin Puryear’s stately Pylons rise along the waterfront of the Belvedere, framing the sightlines of the Winter Garden. Both columns are made from stainless steel and are composed from six segments. In their contours they are a study in opposites.

As the first major public waterfront plaza built on the Hudson River, the Plaza was commissioned by the Battery Park City Authority as part of its public art program, and was conceived as a multi-purpose space, providing the pleasure of variety via a range of open space for individuals, intimate

Designed by Ned Smyth, Upper Room is a handsome colonnaded court marking the entrance to the Esplanade at Albany Street. At once dignified and playful, reverent and inviting, this self-contained sculptural environment suggests a contemporary reimagining of an ancient Egyptian temple offering stylized sanctuary from the surrounding city even as

WATCH: Public Art on Video – Rector Gate (with R.M. Fischer)

R.M. Fischer’s Rector Gate is a festive archway marking the intersection of Rector Place and the Hudson River Esplanade. Built of Steel, bronze, and granite, and rising 50 feet high, the gateway draws its inspiration both from past

Artschwager’s installation consists of five separate pieces situated at the junction of West Thames Street and the Esplanade. At the center is a street lamp shrunken to squat proportions, surrounded by a wooden armature imitating its crown and girded by an upraised circular bench and table. A second circular seating

WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – South Cove (with Mary Miss)

South Cove is an unusual, meditative recess along the waterfront. Considered one of the country’s most significant public artworks, the work is the result of a unique collaboration between environmental artist Mary Miss, architect Stanton Eckstut

WATCH: Public Art on Video – Ape & Cat (At the Dance) (with Jim Dine)

Although they do not have human features, Jim Dine’s Ape & Cat (At the Dance) exude the sort of civility and tenderness to which many urbanites aspire. Made of cast bronze, the figures are

WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – Eyes

Eyes marks a departure for the artist in that the subject, unlike previous treatments, is explored as two large units representing eyes separated from any suggested surrounding physiognomy. Resting directly on the ground a calculated distance from each other, they

WATCH: Public Art on Video – Resonating Bodies (with Tony Cragg)

Created by British artist Tony Cragg, Resonating Bodies consists of a pair of bronze sculptures resembling giant musical instruments. One resembles a lute, the other, a tuba. This playful work is based on the concept that all physical

Ugo Attardi’s Ulysses, a figure of warmth and energy is defined by the artist as II Modern Baroque. The body, fierce with beauty and Hellenic elegance is united to, and contrasted with, the helmet-mask, which hides and reveals weakness and complexity in the face of the warrior-hero. The dark mask,