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April 1, 2011

Jaume Plensa’s Echo is a Village Voice Spring Art Pick!

The Village Voice has chosen Mad. Sq. Art’s upcoming exhibition, Jaume Plensa’s Echo, as one of their Spring Art Picks!

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March 31, 2011

City of Nature On View Now!

The wait time from ordering to receiving your food at Shake Shack can be about eight minutes. Lucky you! That’s exactly enough time to take in a little bit of culture! The 2011 season of Mad. Sq. Art opens March 31 with City of Nature, a new video work by the multi-media artist and illustrator… Read more

March 25, 2011

Target Art in the Park

From 2000-2003, exhibitions in Madison Square Park were organized by the Madison Square Park Conservancy and the Public Art Fund. October 19-31, 2000 Tony Oursler The Influence Machine mixed media Tony Oursler’s The Influence Machine, installed at Madison Square Park, captured voices and images of ghosts, both contemporary and historical, creating a seance experience that… Read more

Mark di Suvero

For the first four years, Madison Square Park’s green gallery has housed innovative, high-spirited and challenging works by emerging artists. To mark the fifth year of Mad. Sq. Art, the Madison Square Park Conservancy exhibited works of a great artist in his prime: internationally-renowned sculptor Mark di Suvero. The three sculptures on view demonstrated the… Read more

Sol LeWitt

Mad. Sq. Art 2005 exhibits two new works by artist Sol LeWitt. Presented by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Mad. Sq. Art is Manhattan’s free outdoor art gallery with regularly scheduled exhibitions of new work created for the park by major artists. For Mad. Sq. Art 2005, artist Sol LeWitt has created two major concrete-block… Read more

Jene Highstein

Mad. Sq. Art presents an exhibition of eleven sculptures in stone, wood and metal made by Minimalist artist Jene Highstein over the last twenty years. The sculptures, on view through April 2006, share the park’s outdoor galleries with Mad. Sq. Art: Sol LeWitt, which opened in May 2005. Mad. Sq. Art: Jene Highstein offers a… Read more

March 23, 2011

Ursula von Rydingsvard

Four major sculptures by internationally known artist Ursula von Rydingsvard, including the artist’s first translucent outdoor work, are on exhibition at Mad. Sq. Art through February 2007. Mad. Sq. Art is a free outdoor gallery sponsored by the Madison Square Park Conservancy. Three of the sculptures are new works created uniquely for exhibition in Madison… Read more

William Wegman Around the Park

Artist William Wegman presents Around the Park, a new video work, on four outdoor monitors near Madison Square Park’s popular food kiosk, Shake Shack. The approximately seven-minute-long video stars Wegman’s favorite cast of characters as they enjoy a fall day in Madison Square Park. Opening concurrently at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery on Madison Square Park… Read more

Bill Fontana Panoramic Echoes

To learn more about Panoramic Echoes, you can visit Bill Fontana’s web site at www.resoundings.org The Madison Square Park Conservancy announces the launch of Mad. Sq. Art 2007 with a sound sculpture created by Bill Fontana, an internationally recognized innovator in the field of sound art. Mad. Sq. Art is Manhattan’s free outdoor art gallery,… Read more

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March 22, 2011

Event Horizon Award!

Sam Rauch, Art Coordinator; Debbie Landau, President; and Tom Reidy, Director of Park Operations & External Affairs On Monday, March 14, the International Art Critics Association presented Mad. Sq. Art and Antony Gormley’s “Event Horizon” with the award for Best Exhibition in Public Space in 2010. The exhibition marked the U.S. public art debut of… Read more