Large-scale outdoor art installations populate New York City this season across parks, avenues, and waterfronts. Thaddeus Mosley offers towering bronzes cast from carved wood in City Hall Park. The Socrates Annual at Socrates Sculpture Park presents work by artist-fellows addressing the theme and experience of being uprooted. Lady Pink has created Foundations, a mural on MoMA PS1's welcome pavilion honoring the city's graffiti canon. Tai Shani installs a trio of oversized candle sculptures on the High Line. Alma Allen places ten organic, otherworldly sculptures along Park Avenue. Torkwase Dyson has erected a modernist pavilion on the Brooklyn waterfront.
Over the summer, when most of New York City's galleries and museums are busy preparing their big autumn exhibitions, some of the city's best shows are to be found along its avenues and in its green spaces. This season's bounty of outdoor art includes an exhibition of towering bronzes cast from carved wood by the nonagenarian sculptor Thaddeus Mosley in Lower Manhattan's City Hall Park (a Public Art Fund project, until 16 November),
On the High Line elevated park, the British artist Tai Shani is lighting amblers' ways with a trio of large-scale sculptures of cartoon-ish candles, The Sun Is a Flame That Haunts The Night (until March 2026). Meanwhile, the sculptor Alma Allen has planted a group of ten large-scale, simultaneously organic and otherworldly sculptures along Park Avenue (East 52nd and East 70th Streets)
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