New York City Public Projects
The organization has cooperated with the Whitney Museum of American Art on the Whitney Biennial Outdoors, in Central Park.
The Fund's work has increased due to the influence of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a supporter of public art. Since Bloomberg took office, he has asked the Public Art Fund to organize temporary exhibitions of outdoor artwork in City Hall Park. In 2003, they organized "Element E," created by Roy Lichtenstein 13 years before his death in 1997, for installation at City Hall Park. According to Susan Freedman, president of the Public Art Fund, these projects are "important to the morale of the art community," and they " a message that the arts are alive in this city."
In 1997 the Fund organized Ilya Kabakov's "Monument to the Lost Glove," a giant glove made of red plastic resin, which was bolted to the traffic triangle where Fifth Avenue and Broadway cross at 23rd Street. In 2000 they worked with Kabakov again on one of their most expensive projects, "The Palace of Projects," an aggregation of 65 model environments with explanatory texts, drawings and sketches that explore the improvement of the human condition. It was housed in a 40-foot-tall spiraling wooden structure in which one room follows another, up several levels. It cost $300,000 and was shown at the 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue at 26th Street.
Recent New York City projects included Nancy Rubin's Big Pleasure Point at Lincoln Center (photo); Corner Plot by Sarah Sze at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza; Alexander Calder in New York at the City Hall Park; and Material World at the MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, which features new commissions by Rachel Foullon, Corin Hewitt, Matthew Day Jackson, Peter Kreider, and Mamiko Otsubo.
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