Public Art Fund’s Post

A massive thank you to everyone who joined us for the Huma Bhabha opening event in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday! Your presence made the day truly special in unpredictable weather. A special shoutout goes to the incredible park staff for their hard work and support. Huge appreciation also goes out to the Cloudy Donut 🍩 team for most delicious donuts and to Canard Inc. for crafting such refreshing mocktails! 🍹 We couldn't have asked for a better turnout or a better team to collaborate with! We hope to see more of you as the season warms up. With our free Friendship membership, you join an accessible art community and get exclusive perks and benefits. Join today: https://bit.ly/3LM1uMJ

Join us in @BrooklynBridgePark this evening from 6-8 PM for a special opening event celebrating Huma Bhabha's presentation of four new sculptures, Before The End. Installed along Pier 3 Uplands Lawn, Bhabha's sculptures-which can be seen as large-scale contemplations on nature, war, and civilizations across time-are set against iconic landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, One World Trade, and the bridges connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan. The works have a particular resonance with their setting, the park itself having undergone an evolution over time that conceals the rubble of centuries of history beneath its surface. - #PublicArtFund #HumaBhabha #DavidZwirner #BrooklynBridgePark

Anyone else feeling "BLESSED!" by the sun today? ☀️ The weather has us excited to catch some rays and checkout Clifford Prince King's exhibition presented on JCDecaux North America, Inc. bus shelters and newsstands in New York City this weekend. Find an artwork near you: https://bit.ly/3S9HRRy #CliffordPrinceKing BLESSED!, 2023 Archival inkjet print Image: © Courtesy the artist; STARS Gallery, Los Angeles; and Gordon Robichaux, New York 📷: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY Presented by Public Art Fund as a part of Clifford Prince King: Let me know when you get home, an exhibition on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters and 30 newsstands in New York, Chicago, and Boston, February 21–May 26, 2024. - [A photograph depicting the torso of a shirtless Black man is stretched on a wooden boardwalk on a sunny day. The word blessed is tattooed in capital letters across the subject's stomach, and the shadow of the photographer is visible on his chest. ]

Don't miss out! Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm for a free captivating exchange between artist Sarah Sze and writer Teju Cole in The Great Hall at The Cooper Union. They'll delve into Sze's stunning site-specific sculpture, "Shorter Than The Day," now on permanent display at LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3vEAV6G #SarahSze Shorter than the Day, 2020 Powder coated aluminum and steel Commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners in partnership with Public Art Fund for LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of the artist; LaGuardia Gateway Partners; Public Art Fund, NY; © Sarah Sze

Sneak peek at #HumaBhabha's "Before The End"! 👀 These mysterious figures will be on view starting next week through March 2025. Join us on Monday, April 29 at 6pm for a special opening event in Brooklyn Bridge Park! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3TIV8QF

Happy Earth Day - JUST ANNOUNCED: Starting on June 5, 2024, "Attrition," a site-specific sculptural installation by interdisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, will debut in City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan! Luger’s 10-foot-long steel bison skeleton will lie within a bed of grasses native to this region, highlighting the profound interdependence between animals, humans, and the land. 🦬 Placed on the pathway to City Hall, "Attrition" symbolically engages with New York City’s heart of policy-making, bringing to light the history of the bison’s survival and will serve as a catalyst for deeper exploration into environmental stewardship, Indigenous land history, and humanity’s true position and responsibility: not as a possessor of the land, but as an extension of it. The sculptural work’s material composition also alludes to the romanticized “Wild West” narrative of expansion and industrialization in the United States: the steel skeleton references the production of calcium carbonate from burned bison bones, which was used for building and railroad materials and agricultural fertilizer. Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota - an identity that deeply informs his works in sculpture, installation, performance and video. His bold style of visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview. Starting on June 5 through November 17, 2024, "Cannupa Hanska Luger: Attrition" will be on view in City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition can be explored anytime, anywhere, on the free Bloomberg Connects app. Learn more about the artist and the exhibition at our website! 📸: Courtesy of SandenWolff

Over the years we've collaborated with artists who challenge, explore, and question the notion of the monument. For "Ruins of Empire," Kiyan Williams reimagined an iconic symbol of American values, The Statue of Freedom that sits atop the U.S. Capitol Building. 🗽 The soil surface of the artist’s adaptation makes the sculpture appear to be in a state of decomposition and decay, “embodying how American ideals of freedom are tied to subjugation, drawing inspiration from sci-fi tropes of a destroyed monument like the Statue of Liberty as a symbol for a world ruined by environmental devastation.” Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UfZIb3 #KiyanWilliams "Ruins of Empire," 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY Kiyan Williams, "Ruins of Empire" was commissioned by Public Art Fund and presented as part of Black Atlantic at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City, May 17 – November 27, 2022

Over the years we've collaborated with artists who challenge, explore, and question the notion of the monument. For "Ruins of Empire," Kiyan Williams reimagined an iconic symbol of American values, The Statue of Freedom. 🗽 The soil surface of the artist’s adaptation makes the sculpture appear to be in a state of decomposition and decay, “embodying how American ideals of freedom are tied to subjugation, drawing inspiration from sci-fi tropes of a destroyed monument like the Statue of Liberty as a symbol for a world ruined by environmental devastation.” Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UfZIb3 #KiyanWilliams "Ruins of Empire," 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY Kiyan Williams, "Ruins of Empire" was commissioned by Public Art Fund and presented as part of Black Atlantic at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City, May 17 – November 27, 2022

After #PAFParty2024 comes the....After Party!! Experience a dazzling night of curated cocktails, interactive artist projects, and a DJ set by KittySayWord, celebrating how we cultivate community through art and public spaces. 🎊 Explore Clifford Prince King's immersive portrait experience, decor inspired by Adrienne Elise Tarver's work, customize tote bags with Edra Soto's designs, and bid in our Artsy silent auction supporting our mission. Secure tickets here: https://bit.ly/4cMxewB

ICYMI: In February, Clifford Prince King and Lyle Ashton Harris discussed King's first public art exhibition, "Let me know when you get home," photography as a practice, and explored the ideas of gender, sexuality, and belonging. Missed the talk? You can now view the talk on our website 👏 Watch here: https://bit.ly/47PV8DY 📸 Liz Ligon