A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.

Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?

A newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.

Beloved for their innocence and feared as vectors of disease, pigeons are a divisive and constant presence in New York City. A monumental statue atop the High Line urges us to consider how our feral friends (or foes) are in fact just like us.

紐約華埠的地方營造方案早已提倡修建一座雕塑拱門。然而這種被發明的傳統能否反映出華埠如今的社交與文化生活的多樣性？

纽约华埠的地方营造方案早已提倡修建一座雕塑拱门。然而这种被發明的傳統能否反映出华埠如今的社交与文化生活的多样性？

Plans for Chinatown placemaking have long called for a sculptural archway. Can this invented tradition reflect the diversity of social and cultural life in Chinatown today?

The removal of a public art installation by Maya Lin to make way for a better, brighter Penn Station portends a growing denial of the precarity of human passage through time and space.

Where a controversial sculpture stood, a monument to Harriet Tubman offers a new narrative and new directions for creating sites of collective memory.