Where Art Meets Green
Our Public Art Program
“Very fewspaces canextend anexhibition, andthe experienceof an artist’swork, over morethan four miles.”
Jon Isherwood
2021-2022 Broadway Blooms artist
2021-2022 Broadway Blooms artist
The Art on the Malls program aims to enhance the long-standing mission of the Broadway Mall Association to beautify and maintain the five-mile-long stretch of the Broadway malls. We exhibit sculpture created by artists working in a variety of styles and at the highest level–when possible artists new to the New York City streetscape. Sculptural installations reflect the vernacular of Broadway, engage its distinctive, diverse communities, and attract new visitors to this dynamic corridor crossing 7
different neighborhoods of upper Manhattan.
Since 2005, BMA’s Art on the Malls program has been inviting artists to share their work in public art installations. Many of the works exhibited have been created specifically for display on our malls. The BMA Public Art Committee works in coordination with NYC Parks to present these exhibitions.
Exhibitions
Keep art on the malls
For over two decades, BMA has brought world-class art to the Broadway malls. Your support makes the next exhibition possible.
Donate to BMABroadway Shuffle Sean Scully
In 2024–2025, Sean Scully’s Broadway Shuffle offered the first U.S. exhibition of the artist’s unique vertical stacks of metal, composed from various configurations of metal, stone, and wood. An art curriculum for teachers was developed by Columbia University’s Teachers College to accompany the exhibition. You can find it here.
Community Art Partnerships
BMA’s Art on the Malls program also partners with local arts organizations, community groups, and educators to bring public art to life along upper Broadway.
In partnership with the West Harlem Art Fund, BMA brought the Harlem Sculpture Gardens exhibition series to the Broadway malls in 2025 for the first time, with the siting of Iliana Emilia Garcia’s Trinity: I/You/We sculpture at Broadway and 148th Street, in connection with the neighborhood’s Dominican community.
BMA presented Pablo Caviedes: The Unknown Way – an exhibition of 32 works designed by the artist for several Broadway malls in the Hamilton and Washington Heights communities – in conjunction with the Day of the Dead celebration in 2025.
We partnered with ArteLatAm – to sponsor the exhibition’s opening, supporting its public launch and visibility – and with the Community League of the Heights (CLOTH) – to connect the project with local students, facilitating the artist’s collaboration with a Washington Heights public school.
We partnered with ArteLatAm – to sponsor the exhibition’s opening, supporting its public launch and visibility – and with the Community League of the Heights (CLOTH) – to connect the project with local students, facilitating the artist’s collaboration with a Washington Heights public school.
Those interested in being considered for the Art on the Malls program
Please review our Field Guide to Primary Installation Sites, which includes detailed
information about the wide variety of potential site locations along the Broadway malls,
as well as our Exhibition Guidelines for general information about exhibiting work on
the Broadway malls.
Public Art Advisory Group
Our Public Art Advisory Group consists of artists and gallerists who have exhibited work on the Broadway malls, curators, writers and journalists in the fields of sculpture and art more broadly, friends and champions of the arts, as well as our colleagues at the NYC Parks Department.
© Saint Clair Cemin, Photography by Paul Kasmin
© Jeff Goldberg / Esto
Hreedoy Khandakar