Walking through New York City could be compare to saunter through a smog - filled gallery . For the preceding 50 years and more , creative person have brightened its streets , subway , and construction with vivacious mosaics , installations , sculptures , and murals . To celebrate their creativity — and the pioneering public art initiatives that made these body of work potential — the Museum of the City of New York has create a new exhibit , " Art in the Open : Fifty age of Public Art . "

" Art in the clear " feature over 125 works by artists such as Kara Walker , Keith Haring , and Roy Lichtenstein , among others , all of which once deck the city ’s five boroughs . The exhibit explore the social and historical motivating behind outside art , and also connects it with overarching urban themes .

“ The omnipresence of public art is a big part of what makes New York City so special , ” pronounce Museum of the City of New York managing director Whitney Donhauser in a instruction . “ From parks to the subways , from Staten Island to the Bronx , creativeness is all around us . get the broad mixture of artistic production make for public spaces conglomerate together within the wall of a museum offers visitors a new electron lens for appreciate and understanding our city ’s over-the-top 50 - year commitment to public art . ”

Photograph by James Ewing. Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY

The display runs from November 10 , 2017 through May 13 , 2018 . Head to the Museum of the City of New Yorkwebsitefor more details , or delay out some photos below .

Jane Dickson, Untitled, part of Messages to the Public, Times Square, 1982.

Ugo Rondinone, Human Nature, Rockefeller Center, 2013. Presented by Nespresso, Organized by Tishman Speyer and Public Art Fund.

Times Square Mural (2002) © Roy Lichtenstein, NYCT Times Square-42nd Street Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.

Perfect Strangers (2017) © Vik Muniz, NYCT Second Avenue-72nd Street Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.

Rob Pruitt, The Andy Monument, Union Square, 2011.

Laurie Hawkinson, Erika Rothenberg, and John Malpede, Freedom of Expression National Monument, 2004, Foley Square.

At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. A project of Creative Time. Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, NY, May 10 to July 6, 2014.