Public Art

Public Art


WATCH – BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video

Battery Park City is home to a world-renowned collection of public art, a central and foundation element of this thriving 92-acre neighborhood. From sculpture like Martin Puryear’s stately Pylons, to Mary Miss’ intriguingly beautiful land and water installation South Cove, to Agnes Denes’ pioneering environmental work Wheatfield – A Confrontation, BPCA has a long history of presenting art from a diverse range of artists that powerfully transforms public space, encourages social cohesion, and promotes awareness about cultural, environmental, and civic challenges. As part of its strategic plan, BPCA has renewed its efforts as a place that cultivates the art for our time, evidenced by recent temporary installations such as Sunrise/Sunset (Revolution) by Autumn Ewalt and Dharmesh Patel, the debut of Blessing of the Boats by Muna Malik, and The House That Will Not Pass For Any Color Than Its Own by Mildred Howard.

    • JUSTICE REFLECTED

    • Artist: James Yaya Hough Glass and mirror
    Filler
    JUSTICE REFLECTED

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

    James Yaya Hough has created glass art panels filled with images that comment on social justice and encourage empathy for all humanity. The artist describes this three-part work as “a visual journey

    Date: 2022
    Location: Esplanade Plaza Wall.

    • Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution)

    • Artists: Autumn Ewalt and Dharmesh Patel Aluminum and glass
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    Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution)

    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 both by the artists and by local students and community members, were held within the

    Currently: Triptych on west side of Rockefeller Park's North Lawn

    Previously: Located at Pier A Plaza (October 2017-October 2019)

    • The Real World

    • Artist: Tom Otterness Bronze
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    The Real World

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The Real World

    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 signature cartoonish figures:

    Installation: 1992
    Location: Rockefeller Park

    • Pavilion

    • Artist: Demetri Porphyrios Granite, wood, brick & copper
    Filler
    Pavilion

    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

    Installation: 1992
    Location: Rockefeller Park

    • Pylons

    • Artist: Martin Puryear Granite & stainless steel
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    Pylons

    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.

    Installation: 1995
    Location: The Esplanade, just north of North Cove

    • Waterfront Plaza

    • Artists: Siah Armajani & Scott Burton Bronze & steel
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    Waterfront Plaza

    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

    Architect: Cesar Pelli
    Landscape Architect: M. Paul Friedberg
    Location: West of the Winter Garden (Brookfield Place)

    • The Upper Room

    • Artist: Ned Smyth Concrete, glass, gravel & bluestone
    Filler
    The Upper Room

    Designed by Ned Smyth, The 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

    Installation: 1987
    Location: The Esplanade, at Albany Street

    • Rector Gate

    • Artist: R.M. Fischer Stainless steel, bronze, granite
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    Rector Gate

    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 and future, from Constructivism and Science Fiction, in the artist’s signature style.

    Installation: 1988
    Location: The Esplanade, at Rector Place

    • Sitting Stance

    • Artist: Richard Artschwager Granite, steel & wood
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    Sitting Stance

    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

    Installation: 1998
    Location: The Esplanade, at West Thames Street

    • South Cove

    • Artist: Mary Miss Natural plantings, metal & rock
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    South Cove

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – South Cove

    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 and landscape architect

    Installation: 1988
    Landscape Architect: Susan Child
    Architect: Stan Eckstut
    Location: The Esplanade, at South Cove

    • Ape & Cat (At the Dance)

    • Artist: Jim Dine Bronze & wood
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    Ape & Cat (At the Dance)

    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 at onces amusing, allegorical, and unabashedly romantic. The work derives from a series of Dine’s 1990s

    Installation: 1993
    Location: Rector Park East (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Eyes

    • Artist: Louise Bourgeois Granite
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    Eyes

    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

    Installation: 1995
    Location: Corner of South End Avenue and the Western Terminus of 3rd Place (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Resonating Bodies

    • Artist: Tony Cragg Bronze
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    Resonating Bodies

    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 bodies, including ourselves, are constantly enveloped by various energy forms from heat,

    Installation: 1996
    Location: Western Terminus of Second Place (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Ulysses

    • Artist: Ugo Attardi Bronze on marble base
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    Ulysses

    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,

    Installation: 1997
    Location: The Esplanade

    • JUSTICE REFLECTED

    • Artist: James Yaya Hough Glass and mirror
    Filler
    JUSTICE REFLECTED

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

    James Yaya Hough has created glass art panels filled with images that comment on social justice and encourage empathy for all humanity. The artist describes this three-part work as “a visual journey

    Date: 2022
    Location: Esplanade Plaza Wall.

    • Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution)

    • Artists: Autumn Ewalt and Dharmesh Patel Aluminum and glass
    Filler
    Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution)

    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 both by the artists and by local students and community members, were held within the

    Currently: Triptych on west side of Rockefeller Park's North Lawn

    Previously: Located at Pier A Plaza (October 2017-October 2019)

    • The Real World

    • Artist: Tom Otterness Bronze
    Filler
    The Real World

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The Real World

    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 signature cartoonish figures:

    Installation: 1992
    Location: Rockefeller Park

    • Pavilion

    • Artist: Demetri Porphyrios Granite, wood, brick & copper
    Filler
    Pavilion

    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

    Installation: 1992
    Location: Rockefeller Park

    • Pylons

    • Artist: Martin Puryear Granite & stainless steel
    Filler
    Pylons

    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.

    Installation: 1995
    Location: The Esplanade, just north of North Cove

    • Waterfront Plaza

    • Artists: Siah Armajani & Scott Burton Bronze & steel
    Filler
    Waterfront Plaza

    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

    Architect: Cesar Pelli
    Landscape Architect: M. Paul Friedberg
    Location: West of the Winter Garden (Brookfield Place)

    • The Upper Room

    • Artist: Ned Smyth Concrete, glass, gravel & bluestone
    Filler
    The Upper Room

    Designed by Ned Smyth, The 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

    Installation: 1987
    Location: The Esplanade, at Albany Street

    • Rector Gate

    • Artist: R.M. Fischer Stainless steel, bronze, granite
    Filler
    Rector Gate

    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 and future, from Constructivism and Science Fiction, in the artist’s signature style.

    Installation: 1988
    Location: The Esplanade, at Rector Place

    • Sitting Stance

    • Artist: Richard Artschwager Granite, steel & wood
    Filler
    Sitting Stance

    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

    Installation: 1998
    Location: The Esplanade, at West Thames Street

    • South Cove

    • Artist: Mary Miss Natural plantings, metal & rock
    Filler
    South Cove

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – South Cove

    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 and landscape architect

    Installation: 1988
    Landscape Architect: Susan Child
    Architect: Stan Eckstut
    Location: The Esplanade, at South Cove

    • Ape & Cat (At the Dance)

    • Artist: Jim Dine Bronze & wood
    Filler
    Ape & Cat (At the Dance)

    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 at onces amusing, allegorical, and unabashedly romantic. The work derives from a series of Dine’s 1990s

    Installation: 1993
    Location: Rector Park East (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Eyes

    • Artist: Louise Bourgeois Granite
    Filler
    Eyes

    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

    Installation: 1995
    Location: Corner of South End Avenue and the Western Terminus of 3rd Place (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Resonating Bodies

    • Artist: Tony Cragg Bronze
    Filler
    Resonating Bodies

    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 bodies, including ourselves, are constantly enveloped by various energy forms from heat,

    Installation: 1996
    Location: Western Terminus of Second Place (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Ulysses

    • Artist: Ugo Attardi Bronze on marble base
    Filler
    Ulysses

    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,

    Installation: 1997
    Location: The Esplanade

    • JUSTICE REFLECTED

    • Artist: James Yaya Hough Glass and mirror
    Filler
    JUSTICE REFLECTED

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

    James Yaya Hough has created glass art panels filled with images that comment on social justice and encourage empathy for all humanity. The artist describes this three-part work as “a visual journey

    Date: 2022
    Location: Esplanade Plaza Wall.

    • Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution)

    • Artists: Autumn Ewalt and Dharmesh Patel Aluminum and glass
    Filler
    Sunrise, Sunset (Revolution)

    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 both by the artists and by local students and community members, were held within the

    Currently: Triptych on west side of Rockefeller Park's North Lawn

    Previously: Located at Pier A Plaza (October 2017-October 2019)

    • The Real World

    • Artist: Tom Otterness Bronze
    Filler
    The Real World

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The Real World

    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 signature cartoonish figures:

    Installation: 1992
    Location: Rockefeller Park

    • Pavilion

    • Artist: Demetri Porphyrios Granite, wood, brick & copper
    Filler
    Pavilion

    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

    Installation: 1992
    Location: Rockefeller Park

    • Pylons

    • Artist: Martin Puryear Granite & stainless steel
    Filler
    Pylons

    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.

    Installation: 1995
    Location: The Esplanade, just north of North Cove

    • Waterfront Plaza

    • Artists: Siah Armajani & Scott Burton Bronze & steel
    Filler
    Waterfront Plaza

    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

    Architect: Cesar Pelli
    Landscape Architect: M. Paul Friedberg
    Location: West of the Winter Garden (Brookfield Place)

    • The Upper Room

    • Artist: Ned Smyth Concrete, glass, gravel & bluestone
    Filler
    The Upper Room

    Designed by Ned Smyth, The 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

    Installation: 1987
    Location: The Esplanade, at Albany Street

    • Rector Gate

    • Artist: R.M. Fischer Stainless steel, bronze, granite
    Filler
    Rector Gate

    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 and future, from Constructivism and Science Fiction, in the artist’s signature style.

    Installation: 1988
    Location: The Esplanade, at Rector Place

    • Sitting Stance

    • Artist: Richard Artschwager Granite, steel & wood
    Filler
    Sitting Stance

    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

    Installation: 1998
    Location: The Esplanade, at West Thames Street

    • South Cove

    • Artist: Mary Miss Natural plantings, metal & rock
    Filler
    South Cove

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – South Cove

    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 and landscape architect

    Installation: 1988
    Landscape Architect: Susan Child
    Architect: Stan Eckstut
    Location: The Esplanade, at South Cove

    • Ape & Cat (At the Dance)

    • Artist: Jim Dine Bronze & wood
    Filler
    Ape & Cat (At the Dance)

    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 at onces amusing, allegorical, and unabashedly romantic. The work derives from a series of Dine’s 1990s

    Installation: 1993
    Location: Rector Park East (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Eyes

    • Artist: Louise Bourgeois Granite
    Filler
    Eyes

    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

    Installation: 1995
    Location: Corner of South End Avenue and the Western Terminus of 3rd Place (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Resonating Bodies

    • Artist: Tony Cragg Bronze
    Filler
    Resonating Bodies

    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 bodies, including ourselves, are constantly enveloped by various energy forms from heat,

    Installation: 1996
    Location: Western Terminus of Second Place (temporary location during South Battery Park City Resiliency construction)

    • Ulysses

    • Artist: Ugo Attardi Bronze on marble base
    Filler
    Ulysses

    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,

    Installation: 1997
    Location: The Esplanade

Past/Temporary Art

    • Blessing of the Boats: River to River

    • Artist: Muna Malik
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    Blessing of the Boats: River to River

    Artist Muna Malik’s Blessing of the Boats, a 20-foot, mirrored acrylic origami-style boat into which each participant would place a folded origami onto which they had responded to the following prompt: We have an opportunity to set sail toward a new future; what society would you build and how do

    Date: August 2020

    • THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT PASS FOR ANY COLOR THAN ITS OWN

    • Artist: Mildred Howard Painted automotive steel and laminated glass
    Filler
    THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT PASS FOR ANY COLOR THAN ITS OWN

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The House That Will Not Pass For Any Color Than Its Own

    The notion of home and its meanings has been an ongoing investigation in Mildred Howard’s art for decades. The California-based artist’s prints, sculpture and mixed media assemblages explore themes

    Created: 2011
    Installed: 2020 (on loan from the Sacramento County Department of Airports)
    Location: Belvedere Plaza

    • Wheatfield, A Confrontation

    • Artist: Agnes Denes
    Filler
    Wheatfield, A Confrontation

    In 1982, Agnes Denes planted a two-acre field of golden wheat on a segment of the Battery Park City landfill as a powerful paradoxical statement, drawing attention to issues of waste, world hunger, and ecological concerns. This public piece, along with the art show series “Art on the Beach” organized

    On View
    May 1, 1982 - Sep 30, 1982
    Battery Park City Landfill

    • Keith Haring: Acrobats

    Filler
    Keith Haring: Acrobats

    Keith Haring (b.1958, Reading, PA) conceived Acrobats (1986) one year after the first exhibition of his freestanding steel pieces at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1985. Depicting two figures balanced in a remarkable gravity-defying pose, Acrobats is a work of incredible simplicity and vitality. Haring, a quintessentially urban artist, always sought

    On View
    Mar 1, 2004 - Nov 28, 2005
    Battery Park City

    • Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Head

    Filler
    Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Head

    Modern Head by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997, b. New York City, NY) was originally created in 1974. This brushed-steel configuration projects dramatically skyward, while its circular and angular motifs combine to create a dynamic tension. More fanciful shapes conspire to soften the geometric formality of the piece as a whole. Modern Head is something

    On View
    May 15, 1991 - Sep 28, 1992
    Battery Park City

    • Tyrone Mitchell: Chair in Sky: For Charles Mingus

    Filler
    Tyrone Mitchell: Chair in Sky: For Charles Mingus

    Celebrating the life of one of New York’s most significant jazz musicians and composers, Charles Mingus, Tyrone Mitchell’s towering bronze sculpture portrays a chair on top of an elongated pedestal, floating “in the sky.” It is sited in a backdrop with another great work of public art, the Statue of

    On View
    Jun 1, 1994 – Jun 30, 1995
    Battery Park City

    • Beverly Pepper: Cleopatra’s Wedge

    Filler
    Beverly Pepper: Cleopatra’s Wedge

    Beverly Pepper (b.1924, New York City, NY) created Cleopatra’s Wedge in 1991. This 18 1/2-foot tall, rust-colored steel sculpture dramatically complements its lower Manhattan site. In color, mass and shape, Cleopatra’s Wedge exemplifies the perfect relationship between sculpture and its surrounding architecture, which here includes an adjacent building by noted architect César Pelli. Text

    On View
    Mar 1, 2004 – Nov 28, 2005
    Battery Park City

    • Blessing of the Boats: River to River

    • Artist: Muna Malik
    Filler
    Blessing of the Boats: River to River

    Artist Muna Malik’s Blessing of the Boats, a 20-foot, mirrored acrylic origami-style boat into which each participant would place a folded origami onto which they had responded to the following prompt: We have an opportunity to set sail toward a new future; what society would you build and how do

    Date: August 2020

    • THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT PASS FOR ANY COLOR THAN ITS OWN

    • Artist: Mildred Howard Painted automotive steel and laminated glass
    Filler
    THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT PASS FOR ANY COLOR THAN ITS OWN

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The House That Will Not Pass For Any Color Than Its Own

    The notion of home and its meanings has been an ongoing investigation in Mildred Howard’s art for decades. The California-based artist’s prints, sculpture and mixed media assemblages explore themes

    Created: 2011
    Installed: 2020 (on loan from the Sacramento County Department of Airports)
    Location: Belvedere Plaza

    • Wheatfield, A Confrontation

    • Artist: Agnes Denes
    Filler
    Wheatfield, A Confrontation

    In 1982, Agnes Denes planted a two-acre field of golden wheat on a segment of the Battery Park City landfill as a powerful paradoxical statement, drawing attention to issues of waste, world hunger, and ecological concerns. This public piece, along with the art show series “Art on the Beach” organized

    On View
    May 1, 1982 - Sep 30, 1982
    Battery Park City Landfill

    • Keith Haring: Acrobats

    Filler
    Keith Haring: Acrobats

    Keith Haring (b.1958, Reading, PA) conceived Acrobats (1986) one year after the first exhibition of his freestanding steel pieces at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1985. Depicting two figures balanced in a remarkable gravity-defying pose, Acrobats is a work of incredible simplicity and vitality. Haring, a quintessentially urban artist, always sought

    On View
    Mar 1, 2004 - Nov 28, 2005
    Battery Park City

    • Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Head

    Filler
    Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Head

    Modern Head by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997, b. New York City, NY) was originally created in 1974. This brushed-steel configuration projects dramatically skyward, while its circular and angular motifs combine to create a dynamic tension. More fanciful shapes conspire to soften the geometric formality of the piece as a whole. Modern Head is something

    On View
    May 15, 1991 - Sep 28, 1992
    Battery Park City

    • Tyrone Mitchell: Chair in Sky: For Charles Mingus

    Filler
    Tyrone Mitchell: Chair in Sky: For Charles Mingus

    Celebrating the life of one of New York’s most significant jazz musicians and composers, Charles Mingus, Tyrone Mitchell’s towering bronze sculpture portrays a chair on top of an elongated pedestal, floating “in the sky.” It is sited in a backdrop with another great work of public art, the Statue of

    On View
    Jun 1, 1994 – Jun 30, 1995
    Battery Park City

    • Beverly Pepper: Cleopatra’s Wedge

    Filler
    Beverly Pepper: Cleopatra’s Wedge

    Beverly Pepper (b.1924, New York City, NY) created Cleopatra’s Wedge in 1991. This 18 1/2-foot tall, rust-colored steel sculpture dramatically complements its lower Manhattan site. In color, mass and shape, Cleopatra’s Wedge exemplifies the perfect relationship between sculpture and its surrounding architecture, which here includes an adjacent building by noted architect César Pelli. Text

    On View
    Mar 1, 2004 – Nov 28, 2005
    Battery Park City

    • Blessing of the Boats: River to River

    • Artist: Muna Malik
    Filler
    Blessing of the Boats: River to River

    Artist Muna Malik’s Blessing of the Boats, a 20-foot, mirrored acrylic origami-style boat into which each participant would place a folded origami onto which they had responded to the following prompt: We have an opportunity to set sail toward a new future; what society would you build and how do

    Date: August 2020

    • THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT PASS FOR ANY COLOR THAN ITS OWN

    • Artist: Mildred Howard Painted automotive steel and laminated glass
    Filler
    THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT PASS FOR ANY COLOR THAN ITS OWN

    WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – The House That Will Not Pass For Any Color Than Its Own

    The notion of home and its meanings has been an ongoing investigation in Mildred Howard’s art for decades. The California-based artist’s prints, sculpture and mixed media assemblages explore themes

    Created: 2011
    Installed: 2020 (on loan from the Sacramento County Department of Airports)
    Location: Belvedere Plaza

    • Wheatfield, A Confrontation

    • Artist: Agnes Denes
    Filler
    Wheatfield, A Confrontation

    In 1982, Agnes Denes planted a two-acre field of golden wheat on a segment of the Battery Park City landfill as a powerful paradoxical statement, drawing attention to issues of waste, world hunger, and ecological concerns. This public piece, along with the art show series “Art on the Beach” organized

    On View
    May 1, 1982 - Sep 30, 1982
    Battery Park City Landfill

    • Keith Haring: Acrobats

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    Keith Haring: Acrobats

    Keith Haring (b.1958, Reading, PA) conceived Acrobats (1986) one year after the first exhibition of his freestanding steel pieces at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1985. Depicting two figures balanced in a remarkable gravity-defying pose, Acrobats is a work of incredible simplicity and vitality. Haring, a quintessentially urban artist, always sought

    On View
    Mar 1, 2004 - Nov 28, 2005
    Battery Park City

    • Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Head

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    Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Head

    Modern Head by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997, b. New York City, NY) was originally created in 1974. This brushed-steel configuration projects dramatically skyward, while its circular and angular motifs combine to create a dynamic tension. More fanciful shapes conspire to soften the geometric formality of the piece as a whole. Modern Head is something

    On View
    May 15, 1991 - Sep 28, 1992
    Battery Park City

    • Tyrone Mitchell: Chair in Sky: For Charles Mingus

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    Tyrone Mitchell: Chair in Sky: For Charles Mingus

    Celebrating the life of one of New York’s most significant jazz musicians and composers, Charles Mingus, Tyrone Mitchell’s towering bronze sculpture portrays a chair on top of an elongated pedestal, floating “in the sky.” It is sited in a backdrop with another great work of public art, the Statue of

    On View
    Jun 1, 1994 – Jun 30, 1995
    Battery Park City

    • Beverly Pepper: Cleopatra’s Wedge

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    Beverly Pepper: Cleopatra’s Wedge

    Beverly Pepper (b.1924, New York City, NY) created Cleopatra’s Wedge in 1991. This 18 1/2-foot tall, rust-colored steel sculpture dramatically complements its lower Manhattan site. In color, mass and shape, Cleopatra’s Wedge exemplifies the perfect relationship between sculpture and its surrounding architecture, which here includes an adjacent building by noted architect César Pelli. Text

    On View
    Mar 1, 2004 – Nov 28, 2005
    Battery Park City