Exploring Numerals for the 2010 Census

Artist Anita Glesta's 2010 U.S. Census Bureau project in Suitland, Maryland, commissioned by the General Services Administration
Nighttime crowds view a projection on an exterior wall of a figure silhouette overlapping a painted mural of a woman who is carrying a flag while riding a horse.

Projection Mural Promotes Peace, Non-Violent Protest, and Immigration

A projection mural based on the Greek goddess of peace promotes non-violent protest and negotiation, while referencing the freedom of movement | Faith XLVII, Cincinnati, OH
People gather inside a series of large yellow connected steel tubes that form a single continuous volume through an alley

Transforming a Blighted Alley into a Vibrant Pedestrian Corridor

Transforming a blighted alley into a vibrant pedestrian corridor | SPORTS, Chattanooga, TN
A monochromatic ghost-like mural with overlapping images, including tall figures, covers a library wall

A Ghostlike Mural Speaks to Quiet Strength

A ghostlike mural invoking images of the local past speaks to the quiet strength of history that fuels the future | Ben Volta, Tacony, PA
Doris Salcedo’s Sumando Ausencias, roughly translated as “adding absences,” covered 23,000 square feet of the Plaza Bolívar in Bogotá.

An Astonishing Work of Memory and Mourning

Mourners and protesters sewed together 2,300 sheets with the names of people killed or disappeared during Colombia’s civil war | Doris Salcedo, Bogotá
The projector used for Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri and the Tentative Collective’s Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema travels throughout Karachi on a rickshaw. It’s used to show mobile-phone video documentaries made by people in Karachi on open-air walls throughout the city.

Mobile Cinema Traveling Via Rickshaw Shows Videos Made by Locals

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema travels through the city on a rickshaw, showing mobile-phone videos made by people in Karachi on open-air walls | Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri and the Tentative Collective, Karachi, Pakistan
In their performance piece Hotel Empire: The New York Crossing, Laurent Boijeot and Sébastien Renauld moved portable furniture and bedding—here set up in Times Square—about five blocks every day.

Moving Portable Public Furniture Five Blocks Daily

In their performance piece Hotel Empire: The New York Crossing, Laurent Boijeot and Sébastien Renauld moved portable furniture and bedding—here set up in Times Square—about five blocks every day.

Calligraffiti Mural and IAPA 2019 Winner Intends to Open a Dialogue

Perception, eL Seed’s massive Arabic calligraffiti mural in Cairo, is visible as a whole from only one place: a Coptic church in a cave on Mokottam Mountain. The artwork was intended to open a dialogue about the Zaraeeb, a little-known community of Coptic Christians who are master recyclers.
In Sydney, Australia’s Garden Palace, Jonathan Jones’s installation barrangal dyara called attention to lost Aboriginal history with 15,000 white replicas of Aboriginal shields, a meadow of native kangaroo grass in the center, and a soundscape of youth speaking eight Aboriginal languages.

Calling Attention to Lost Aboriginal History

barrangal dyara calls attention to lost Aboriginal history | Jonathan Jones, Sydney, Australia
Perception, eL Seed’s massive Arabic calligraffiti mural in Cairo, is visible as a whole from only one place: a Coptic church in a cave on Mokottam Mountain. The artwork was intended to open a dialogue about the Zaraeeb, a little-known community of Coptic Christians who are master recyclers.

All Around the World: the 2019 International Award for Public Art

The International Award for Public Art is more than a prize—it’s a chance to gauge what’s powerful in the field, from one end of the globe to the other.

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