Artworks & exhibitions in New York

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New York boasts world-class institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim, where visitors can explore numerous artistic styles and periods. Together with its other institutions, such as the world’s leading auction houses and galleries, the city became the global powerhouse of the art world.

New York City’s influence on the global art landscape extends beyond its art spaces. It’s a city where art is not confined to museums. It’s woven into the very fabric of public spaces. Beyond the museum walls, the city’s streets serve as an ever-changing canvas for street art and graffiti. Parks and plazas are adorned with sculptures and installations, making art accessible to all.

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Why are Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures & furniture pieces so influential?

Ceramics, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading
A walk through Japan reveals the close correlation between nature and aesthetics. Amid the natural setup are works of art that remind everyone about the history, beliefs and affiliations of the Japanese people. The modern art concept of creating spectacular pieces to create an art park is becoming rather common owing to the pioneering work

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Jeff Koons’ shiny balloon dog – Would you pay $58 million?

Sculptures / 9 minutes of reading
Inspired by the likes of Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons is a recognized artist known for his work in pop culture. As such, his sculptures often depict everyday objects. He is currently among the most popular contemporary artists and is generally considered one of the most important, influential, and most controversial pop artists

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Do Ho Suh – Almost home? An entire apartment recreated in museum

Architecture, Installations, Textile art / 3 minutes of reading
South Korean artist Do Ho Suh created an installation based on his New York home. It serves to highlight the permeable margins that are said to disconnect private and public in addition to the normalized concepts of global identity, space and place, diasporic movement, memory, and displacement. Do Ho Su’s biography is the inspiration of

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Jaume Plensa’s stunning larger-than-life sculptures

Sculptures, Statues / 8 minutes of reading
Jaume Plensa is arguably one of the top sculptors today. He is primarily known for creating huge ethereal sculptures and has also worked with different contemporary art media types, including acoustic installations and video projections. Plensa is especially known for his large-scale, ethereal projects, which he installed in public spaces of major cities around the

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Chris Burden an got enormous meteorite on eBay for this installation

Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Chris Burden was not exactly an everyday artist. While his previous work usually involved a form of danger (see Shoot), his last works have still been about performance, but mostly involved creating very much advanced models of working machines. One of such of his works was sitting in the New Museum, New York, in 2013.

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Interview: Andrew Beccone – How a library turned into an artwork

Interviews / 26 minutes of reading
Andrew Beccone is an artist with a master’s degree in Information and Library Science and the founder of the Reanimation Library, a collection of carefully selected books. I caught up with Andrew during his residency at the Queens Museum Studio Program. While there have been remote temporary iterations in cities across the US and the

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Christopher Morris: How the New York Subway looked in the 1980s

Graffiti, Paintings, Photography / 1 minute of reading
22-years-old at the time, Christopher Morris was working as an intern at the photo agency Black Star and was determined to make something of himself as a photographer. According to the agency, the recently rediscovered photographs “provide a window on a long-gone New York, a metropolis that once pulsed with a very different energy—a frenetic

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Yoshitomo Nara’s shining dog sculptures – What you should know

Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading
Yoshitomo Nara is a well-known and influential Japanese contemporary artist who lives and works in Nasushiobara. He grew up in post-Pacific War Japan. For some reason, throughout his work, he usually channels memory of his lonely childhood into his sculptures and paintings, evoking the viewers to revisit their own childhood memories. His projects and artwork

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What is Yvette Mattern’s global rainbow?

Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Global Rainbow, After the Storm is a monumental outdoor laser installation by American artist Yvette Mattern, viewable to millions of New Yorkers. Organized in response to Hurricane Sandy, the artist projected seven beams of high power laser light over communities hit hard by the storm, originating on Manhattan’s Lower West Side and spanning across Brooklyn

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Karl Haendel’s large murals don’t make any sense

Murals, Paintings, Street Art / 2 minutes of reading
In 2009, Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel made two large scribble murals. One was his first public installation in New York. The other, a similar painting, was executed in Los Angeles. His gigantic scribbles are an anti-heroic gesture with roots in street art, public mark-making and a universal means of communication. Karl Haendel about his

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Why did Josephine Meckseper install oil pumps in Midtown Manhattan?

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading
In March 2012, two monumental kinetic sculptures, each about 7.5m tall, transformed a disused public space in Midtown Manhattan into an art piece by Josephine Meckseper. Though mirroring the forms and materials of the mid-century oil industry, the artist locates her work firmly inside the contemporary debate about American business, wealth and consumerism. What inspired

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Paola Pivi’s How I Roll – Air plane rotates in New York’s Central Park

Installations / 4 minutes of reading
For two months, a small airplane was rotating 24 hours a day in summer 2012 in Central Park, New York. Previous works by Paola Pivi have also featured large machines, including an overturned tractor-trailer and a helicopter placed upside down. How I Roll by Paola Pivi, situated at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, marked the

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Artist David Brooks & These massive rooftops on Manhattan’s last undeveloped lot

Architecture, Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading
Imagine viewing rooftops at eye level with pedestrians in Manhattan, New York? That seems nearly impossible when you consider New York has more than 300 high-rise buildings taller than 150 meters. This means that to really appreciate the city’s landscape of rooftops, one has to climb to the rooftop of another landmark building or take

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Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Trees covers entire buildings in New York

Installations / 1 minute of reading
In celebration of Yayoi Kusama’s past retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art earlier in 2012, two off-site projects took place. In one of them, Kusama’s rhythmic dotted “Yellow Tree motif transformed a construction site in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan into a giant canvas. A detail of the original painting Yellow Trees (1994)

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Tom Fruin’s Watertower – Made of 1000 scrap plexiglass pieces

Architecture, Sculptures, Stained Glass Windows / 5 minutes of reading
Not many artists enjoy the privilege of having their pieces displayed in New York City’s prime locations, but artist Tom Fruin does enjoy this. His creation of the Water Tower is a sight to behold and can be easily viewed from FDR Drive, parks and streets of Dumbo, Manhattan Bridge, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge Park

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