A guide to free art around New York City

• Craig Anthony Miller (CAM)’s “Massive Stampede” mural (pictured) on Adams Street between York and Prospect streets

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  “Field’s Jax Sculptures” by Fitzhugh Karol Emily Caisip’s “Moment of Gratitude” on Front Street between Pearl and Adams Street

  Andy Lin’s “Self Portrait Project” within Empire Stores.

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• (509 W. 27th St., Chelsea)

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  Mural 1 (pictured): Brooklyn Dirty Bandits (@dirtybandits) at 402 McGuiness Blvd., Greenpoint

  Mural 2: Adam Fu (@adamfu) and Dirty Bandits at 75 Scott Ave., Bushwick

  Mural 3: Jason Naylor (@jasonnaylor) at 109 Wilson Ave., Bushwick

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• (1280 Fifth Ave., East Harlem)

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• (Rockefeller Plaza, Channel Gardens, the Rink, North Plaza and South Esplanade, between 49th and 50th streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues, midtown)

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• (10 Halletts Point, Long Island City, Queens)

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• showcasing artwork that calls on the cosmos, from Miya Andos’ "Ginga (Silver River)" print of the Milky Way on a waving translucent textile, pictured, to Beatriz Cortez’s "Tzolk’in," a steel work inspired and named after the Mayan calendar, among others. The collection includes works by Radcliffe Bailey, Alicja Kwade, Eduardo Navarro, Heidi Neilson, and Oscar Santillán with new commissions by William Lamson, and (MDR) Maria D. Rapicavoli.

  (32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City)

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• “Tilted Head” by Dutch artist Mark Manders is a huge single-cast bronze sculpture that will sit at the southeast entrance to Central Park starting in March. The piece, which is over 13 feet tall, features an androgynous human head in classical repose. It’s incomplete and propped by chairs and a large suitcase the artist made.

  Doris C. Freedman Plaza (Central Park at East 60th Street)

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• Five large-scale sculptures by Cuban-born, NYC-based artist Carmen Herrera are going up at City Hall Park this summer. The pieces, two of which were constructed in the late 1960s, are aluminum and painted in bold colors. There will be three new sculptures for this exhibit, including “Angulo Rojo” (pictured). They’re meant to evoke order and tranquility using geometric and dynamic shapes.

  City Hall Park (Broadway and Chambers Street)

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• This work, which artist Siah Armajani created more than 50 years ago, is a hybrid of sculpture and architecture. It’s a 91-foot-long walkway with open sides and a roof with a set of stairs in the middle that go over a small evergreen tree. It’s headed to Brooklyn Bridge Park in February to coincide with his retrospective at The Met Breuer.

  Empire Fulton Ferry lawn at Brooklyn Bridge Park between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges

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• a new project aimed at making Roosevelt Island an art island. The 6-foot-tall carbon-steel column, inspired by the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square, currently holds a piece by Long Island City artist Michael Poast, “Saecula Saeculorum,” which means “Without End” in Latin. Over time, it will transform from its light color to a deep maroon, according to Poast.

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• Dalmatian the height of a three-story building is now balancing a real taxi cab on its nose in front of what will be NYU Langone’s new Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital. At 38 feet tall, “Spot,” a female puppy, was constructed with fiberglass and steel beams by artist Donald Lipski.

  NYU Langone Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion at 34th Street and First Avenue.

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• Banksy unveiled a new mural that protests the imprisonment of Zehra Dogan, a Turkish artist and journalist. Dogan was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison in March 2017 after she published a painting of a Turkish city that was damaged in 2015 by fighting between the Turkish army and Kurdish militants. Banksy’s 70-foot-long mural has black hash marks for every day Dogan has spent in prison and a rendering of Dogan behind a prison cell, holding one of the bars that is also a pencil.

  The corner of Houston Street and Bowery

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The city is its own art gallery.

The streets and parks are full of both permanent and temporary art and sculptures, from The Public Art Fund across Manhattan to Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City and points in between.

We’ve created a guide of some of the best temporary artworks, forthcoming installations and where you can see them across the five boroughs.