This World & Nearer Ones
19 Public Art Commissions
on Govenors Island, NYC
Opening June 27, 2009





PLOT is a new public art quadrennial, produced and presented by Creative Time. This World & Nearer Ones is the first edition of PLOT, and will be held this summer on Governors Island. 19 artworks by an A-list of international, contemporary artists will be presented. The exhibition is free and open to the public Friday-Sunday. This World & Nearer Ones includes only site-specific artwork. Artists selected for the show were asked to respond to their sites on Governors Island. See the project themes for more information.

 

 

This World & Nearer Ones is produced in association with GIPEC, the office of the Mayor of the City of New York, NYC & Company, and the National Park Service, and is made possible, in part, by generous support from by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Bloomberg, the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York as part of the NY400 celebrations, Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art, Mondriaan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Warburg Pincus, LLC and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.


MEDIA CONTACT: Nicholas Weist, nickw@creativetime.org