Nicholas Baume On the Power of Public Art and What It’s Accomplishing in New York

A few weeks ago, the news broke that John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6, currently under construction, would feature installations by eighteen contemporary artists, including Kerstin Brätsch, Nina Chanel Abney, Teresita Fernández, Charles Gaines and Barbara Kruger. These excellent artists were selected via collaboration between New York’s Port Authority, JFK Millennium Partners and Public Art Fund, which also worked on the art-filled LaGuardia Airport renovation.

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