Ann Pasternak is the Executive Director of Creative Time, New York’s not-for-profit public arts organization bringing temporary, site-specific works to public spaces.

 

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Blueberry School, New York. Photo courtesy of Project for Public Spaces, New York.

 

Top: Corky Lee, Chinese Lunar New Year Festivities, New York City, 1995. Photo courtesy of the Artist.

Bottom: Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT. Photo courtesy of Project for Public Spaces, New York.

 

Top: NASA photo of comet.

Bottom: Peggy Diggs, Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project, domestic violence awareness campaign sponsored by Creative Time, 1991–92. Photo by Alyson Pou. Photo courtesy of Creative Time, New York.

 

Clockwise from top left:

David Hammons, Higher Goals,1986, Columbus Park, Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of Public Art Fund, New York.

Jenny Holzer, selections from Truisms and The Survival Series, 42nd Street marquees, 1993, sponsored by Creative Time. Photo by Dona Ann McAdams, courtesy of Creative Time, New York.

Agencia de Viaje, Capsula de Tiempo, 1992, 85×2 x .6 meters, an open time capsule in the form of a tar pit accepting contributions. Courtesy Agencai de Viaje.

Christian Boltatnski, Lost: Property, installation Grand Central Terminal, 1995. Photo courtesy Public Art Fund, New York.

 

Top: Daniel Martinez public intervention, 1995. Photo Courtesy of the artist.

Bottom: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Untitled (for Jeff), 1992, billboard as installed in Stockholm Sweden. Photo by Neil Goldstein, courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

 

Top: Mierle Landerman, Ballet Mechanique for 6, Ukeles ballet of sanitation trucks, part of Sanitation Celebrations, New York, 1983.

Bottom: Vito Acconci, Project for Klapper Hall, permanent installation Queens College, New York, 1993–95, fiberglass, granite finish, light, 13×80 x 160’. Photo courtesy of Barbara Gladstone Gallery.

 

Top: Jeff Koons, Puppy, 1992, Arolsen, Germany, live flowers, earth, wood, and steel, 472×197 x 256”. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Bottom: Marsland-Ovalle, video installation in a Chicago vacant lot. Photo by Antonio Perez. Photo courtesy of Culture in Action, Chicago.