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We search the world for projects we love — projects that inspire and make communities better places to live. Explore what’s possible with public art.

Exploring Numerals for the 2010 Census

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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

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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

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A monochromatic ghost-like mural with overlapping images, including tall figures, covers a library wall

A Ghostlike Mural Speaks to Quiet Strength

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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

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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

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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

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Calligraffiti Mural and IAPA 2019 Winner Intends to Open a Dialogue

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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

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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

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at dusk, a deep blue sky over the illuminated Dresden cathedral

Breathing Cathedral: in remembrance of the Dresden bombing

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A collaboration between artist, artisans, and MTA

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A bridge made of paper

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Alberto Burri’s monumental land art project in Sicily

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A mural to switch perceptions and open a dialogue

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Urban art intervention reimagines a blot on the seascape

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Massive yarn installation celebrates people for being themselves

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Strange and wonderful structures on a frozen Minnesota lake

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Golden sidewalk repair finds beauty in the broken

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Serenity in Steel

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Three artist-activists help a neighborhood dream about, and develop, its economic future

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Heartbeat

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Understanding

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