Times Square Alliance and mmmm. Unveil the World Premiere of “Meeting Bowls” in Times Square

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Times Square Alliance with the Consulate General of Spain New York today present a month-long public art installation of a new generation of urban furnishing, termed the Meeting Bowls. At 5 feet tall and 7 feet in diameter and open to the sky and flashing billboards of Times Square, the giant bowls can host up to eight strangers or friends. The collaborative of Spanish artists, mmmm…, created the Meeting Bowls to capture urban territory for use as social places [...]

Largest Public Art Project Installation by New York’s Acconci Studio Planned for Indianapoli

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- As the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick races to finish its last legs of construction, its last and largest public art installation is announced. “Swarm Street” rendering by Acconci Studio Located inside the Virginia Avenue parking garage south of Maryland St., “Swarm Street” by Acconci Studio of New York (pronounced “Uh-KON-chee”), is an interactive light environment that the creators compare to swarms of fireflies. More than 1,000 LED-lights will be embedded below you [...]

Site-Specific Public Art Installation By Pioneering New Media Artist Jim Campbell

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy presents Scattered Light, a new site-specific public art installation by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Marking the artist’s most ambitious public art project to date, Scattered Light features three installations of orchestrated light incorporating elements of computer programming and high-technology for a public art installation which literally lights up Madison Square Park this fall and winter. Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light will remain on view through February 28, 2011, as part of the Conservancy’s [...]

Art Production Fund Set to Present “White Ghost” by Yoshitomo Nara on Park Avenue

NEW YORK, NY.- Art Production Fund will present “White Ghost” by Yoshitomo Nara in two locations on Park Avenue. “We are thrilled to be working with Nara to introduce his first public sculptures in New York City” says Co-founders of Art Production Fund, Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen. This public art installation will coincide with the first Nara retrospective “Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool” opening at Asia Society in early September 2010. During August of 2010 the Park Avenue Armory [...]