20 Years of Public Art in Madison Square Park

Since 2013, Brooke Kamin Rapaport has been responsible for the Conservancy’s program of commissioned public art by contemporary artists in her role as Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator. While at MSPC, she served as Commissioner and Curator of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty / Libertà (2019). The exhibition marked the first time in the history of the Venice Biennale that the US Pavilion was organized by an institution whose visual art program focused exclusively on public art. Rapaport was a curator in the contemporary art department at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. In 2022, she was awarded an honorary degree from Amherst.

New York-based independent curator, writer, journalist and critic Lilly Wei writes on global contemporary art and emerging art and artists, reporting frequently on international exhibitions and biennials. She has written for dozens of publications here and abroad and is a longtime contributor to Art in America and a contributing editor at ARTnews. She is the author of numerous artists’ catalogues and monographs and has curated exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Wei sits on the board of several non-profit art institutions and organizations including AICA/USA (the International Association of Art Critics), Bowery Arts & Sciences, and Art Omi International. She is a fellow and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the CUE Foundation.