New Horizon ↗
Doug Aitken
touring aerial installation and live-event series
Project details & references
- Year / version
- 2019
- Documented at
- Long Point Wildlife Refuge, West Tisbury, Massachusetts
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Number 381 ↗
Leonardo Drew
abstract bronze sculpture
Project details & references
- Materials
- bronze
- Year / version
- 2024 (dedicated May 2; creation year not established)
- Documented at
- Plaza between Young and Hillcrest Halls, Western campus, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
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Oculus ↗
Olga Ziemska
sculptural installation
Project details & references
- Materials
- tree cross-sections, mirrors
- Year / version
- 2023; exhibition May 2023–March 1, 2025
- Documented at
- Formerly Beech and Maple collections near Parking Lot 14, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois
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Odyssey ↗
Albert Paley
monumental gateway sculpture (four-part)
Project details & references
- Materials
- formed and fabricated weathering steel, stainless steel, bronze
- Year / version
- 2010
- Documented at
- South 24th Street bridge over Interstate 80, Council Bluffs, Iowa
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Oracle ↗
Sanford Biggers
monumental figurative sculpture
Project details & references
- Materials
- cast bronze
- Year / version
- 2021
- Documented at
- Rockefeller Center, Fifth Avenue entrance to Channel Gardens, New York
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Order of Importance ↗
Leandro Erlich
temporary public art installation
Project details & references
- Year / version
- 2019; December 1–15 presentation
- Documented at
- Oceanfront at Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida
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Oslo Treet (The Oslo Tree) ↗
Symmetry Labs
outdoor light sculpture
Project details & references
- Materials
- LED lamps
- Year / version
- Opened December 1, 2019
- Documented at
- Trettenparken, near Skur 13, Filipstad, Oslo
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Pac-Lab ↗
Will Ryman
walk-through sculptural maze
Project details & references
- Materials
- cast resin, steel, paint
- Year / version
- 2017
- Documented at
- Parc de La Villette, Paris, France
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Parabolic Lightcloud ↗
Amigo & Amigo
light and sound installation
Project details & references
- Materials
- rope, net made from recycled plastic bottles
- Documented at
- Amsterdam Light Festival, Amsterdam
- Project context
- Studio description of the audiovisual installation; Edition 7 presenter and supporting-partner account
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Paradise Parados ↗
Teresita Fernández; design and fabrication with Camber Studio
reflective terrace sculpture and canopy
Project details & references
- Materials
- mirror-polished stainless steel
- Year / version
- 2021 (BAM photo credit)
- Documented at
- Robert W. Wilson Sculpture Terrace, BAM Strong, Brooklyn, New York
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Paradisium ↗
Dave Keane & Folly Builders
participatory architectural installation
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- Materials
- recycled and reclaimed lumber, old fence boards
- Year / version
- 2022
- Documented at
- Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
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Park of the Laments ↗
Alfredo Jaar
site-specific landscape installation
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- Materials
- soil, limestone, gabion baskets, concrete, plants, wood
- Year / version
- 2010
- Documented at
- Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Pavilion in the Trees ↗
Martin Puryear
architectural public sculpture / elevated pavilion
Project details & references
- Materials
- debarked western red cedar (posts and framing), clear, heart white oak (decking, handrails, and benches), clear, heart redwood (canopy), stainless steel mesh
- Year / version
- 1993 (conceived 1981)
- Documented at
- Lansdowne Glen, Horticulture Center grounds, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Pillars of the Valley ↗
Damon Davis
community memorial and public-art installation
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- Materials
- granite, concrete
- Year / version
- 2023 (first installment unveiled February 16)
- Documented at
- Mill Creek Valley/Market Street corridor, including St. Louis CITY stadium site, St. Louis, Missouri
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Poetic Cosmos of the Breath ↗
Tomás Saraceno
solar inflatable installation and performance
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- Materials
- iridescent foil, air, sandbags
- Year / version
- September 22, 2007 Gunpowder Park presentation
- Documented at
- Gunpowder Park, Essex, United Kingdom
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Points of View ↗
Tony Cragg
three-part bronze sculpture
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- Materials
- bronze
- Year / version
- 2013/2014, as catalogued for Madison Square Park
- Documented at
- Madison Square Park Oval Lawn, New York, New York
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Portal Park Slice ↗
Robert Irwin
site-specific sculpture
Project details & references
- Materials
- filigreed steel, specifically the added revision segments
- Year / version
- 1981 original; revised and retitled 2022
- Documented at
- John W. Carpenter Plaza, Dallas, Texas, original north–south alignment
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PRESENSE.2 ↗
media.tribe
outdoor audiovisual installation
Project details & references
- Year / version
- 2022
- Documented at
- INTERVALS Festival, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Pulse ↗
Flaming Lotus Girls
interactive fire sculpture
Project details & references
- Materials
- steel, LEDs
- Year / version
- 2016
- Documented at
- Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
- Project context
- Collective’s description of Pulse, dated 2016.; Documented 2024 configuration change.
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Pulse Park ↗
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; programming by Conroy Badger
temporary interactive biometric light installation
Project details & references
- Materials
- heart-rate sensor, computer, DMX controller, custom software, dimmer rack, 200 Source Four spotlights, generator
- Year / version
- 2008
- Documented at
- Oval Lawn, Madison Square Park, New York
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Pulse Portal ↗
Davis McCarty
dichroic public sculpture
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- Materials
- dichroic Plexiglass, steel
- Year / version
- 2016
- Documented at
- Pier 27 Cruise Terminal sidewalk, San Francisco, California
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Pyroticulation ↗
Christopher Schardt
interactive propane-propelled kinetic sculpture
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- Materials
- propane
- Year / version
- 2011
- Documented at
- Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
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Quake ↗
DeWitt Godfrey
public sculpture
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- Materials
- Corten steel
- Year / version
- 2015
- Documented at
- Intersection of Merriam Street and Waverly Path, Cambridgeport, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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R-Evolution ↗
Marco Cochrane
monumental figurative sculpture
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- Materials
- steel, stainless steel mesh, LED lighting
- Year / version
- 2015
- Documented at
- Burning Man, Nevada
- Project context
- Artist’s published installation guidance, checked October 10, 2026; Embarcadero Plaza, announced October 12–15, 2026 deinstallation
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