The sculptor Richard Serra, a stickler about the differences between art and architecture, once described most public sculpture in urban architectural settings as “displaced, homeless, overblown objects that say, ‘We represent modern art.’”

For most of the last century, residential and commercial developments in New York City tended to marry architecture and art with that kind of ambivalence, if they married them at all: lobbies with a few pretty, unremarkable paintings; courtyards with pleasant design pieces or plop art by sculptors whose work rarely showed up in the museums around town......Continue Reading

Top image: “Pumpkin (L),” Yayoi Kusama’s first permanent public artwork in Manhattan, in front of the Sky building at 605 West 42nd Street. Image by Philip Greenberg for The New York Times

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