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New York City is getting a new monument dedicated to the late pioneering Brooklyn congresswoman Shirley Chisholm following the approval on Monday, July 17, of a sculpture designed by artists Olalekan Jeyifous and Amanda Williams. The piece is part of the city’s new She Built NYC initiative, a...

It took officials more than four years to say yes to the towering lattice steel statue by Amanda Williams and Olalekan B. Jeyifous.

Kristi Linsenmayer put her own spin on a $2.3 million rustic property in Ketchikan, with pink cabinets, a strawberry wall and filtered rainwater

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is producing the reality show "The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist" with MTV.

Early into his second term, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $10 million initiative, led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, that would break the bronze cei

Without dedicated funding for conservation, many of New York City’s public memorials and artworks are decaying from neglect.

Gillie and Marc’s statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo courtesy of the artists. Meanwhile, the city’s She Built NYC initiative, launched in 2018, will build monuments to jazz legend Billie Holiday, public health pioneer Helen Rodríguez Trías, civil rights leader Elizabeth Jennings Graham, lighthouse keeper Katherine Walker, and Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman. Those names were chosen after a public poll; when the most-suggested woman, Saint Frances Cabrin...

A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny Activists say a proposed project is too abstract for a time when Black New Yorkers are eager to see figures that look like them among the city’s statues. Willoughby Square Park, where the city intends to erect a monument to Brooklyn’s abolitionists.Credit...Aundre Larrow for The New York Times By Zachary Small Jan. 25, 2021 When the artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed was commissioned to conceive of a project honoring Brooklyn aboli...