Public art

1 Jim Hodges

Look and See. An 11 1/2-foot-high, 50-foot-long, S-shaped screen made from cutout black-and-white-painted steel, commissioned by Creative Time and installed for six months in Battery Park City.

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2 Dimitar Lukanov

Light to Sky. A 16-foot-tall cast bronze sculpture permanently installed in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy Airport and sponsored by the Geneva-based Art Culture Studio.

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3 Matt Mullican

L'Art d'Ecrire. A mural of 64 yellow canvas panels with black oil-stick rubbings at the Middlebury College library, commissioned by the school and the Memorial Fund for Mural Painting in America.

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4 Mel Bochner and Michael Van Valkenburgh

Kraus Campo. Curving orange pathways radiate out from a sculptural platform covered with black-numbered white tiles, on Carnegie Mellon University's campus, funded by Jill and Peter Kraus.

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5 Steve Tobin

Trinity Root. An 18-foot-tall patinated bronze replica of the stump and roots of a sycamore tree, installed in the Manhattan church courtyard where the 70-year-old tree stood until 9/11, commissioned by Trinity Church.

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6 Tim Hawkinson

Bear. Eight boulders, one weighing more than 100 tons, form a 20-foot-tall sculpture at the University of California, San Diego, commissioned by the school's Stuart Collection.

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7 Sarah Sze

An Equal and Opposite Reaction. A 45-foottall motorized assemblage of fans, ladders, plastic cups and tubing, suspended in the lobby of the Seattle Center, sponsored by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

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8 Mary Miss

A 16-by-33-by-8-foot untitled aluminum structure with sliding interior panels, beside Ohio State University's Evans Laboratory, funded by the Ohio Arts Council's Percent for Art program.

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9 Athena Tacha

Hearts Beat. LED tubes in changing colors line the ceiling of the 300-foot-long sky bridge between the Grosvenor metro station and the Strathmore Music Center, commissioned by the Public Arts Trust of Montgomery County.

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10 Robert Therrien

Table and Six Chairs. A nearly 10-foot-tall, painted-metal replica of Therrien's own kitchen furniture, installed in an atrium at 590 Madison Ave., a Public Art Fund project.

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11 David Best

Hayes/Green Temporary Projects. A templelike structure of recycled plywood commemorating the Burning Man Festival, a temporary project of the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Mayor's office and the Black Rock Arts Foundation.

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12 Douglas Hollis

Water Works. Water flows from a 16-foot-tall granite-clad cone into a tunnel and two collection pools on the site of an empty reservoir at Cal Anderson Park, a Seattle Public Utilities project.

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13 Kara Walker

Event Horizon. A two-part mural in the main staircase of the New School's Arnhold Hall evokes an Underground Railroad tunnel, commissioned by the university.

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14 Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

Inversion. Two adjacent houses featuring a vortexlike tunnel through the buildings and into a backyard, a temporary project supported by Art League Houston.

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15 Inigo Manglano-Ovalle

Portrait of a Young Reader. A 17-by-54-foot panel of colored glass and perforated steel depicting a DNA sequence, at the Bronx Library Center, commissioned by the New York Public Library and the City of New York.

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16 Donald Lipski

Nails' Tales. Carved stone footballs emerge from a partially eroded 48-foot-tall obelisk at the newly renovated Camp Randall Stadium, a commission of the Wisconsin Art Board's Percent for Art program.

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17 Jenny Holzer

For Pittsburgh. Two 345-foot-long bands of LEDs attached to the roof of the David Lawrence Convention Center display texts of books about Pittsburgh, commissioned by the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.

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18 Lawrence Argent

I See What You Mean, A 40-foot-tall steel-and-concrete blue bear peers into the Colorado Convention Center, commissioned by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs.

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19 Ron Baron

Lost and Found: A Hempstead Excavation Project. A sculpture and benches made of cast-bronze suitcases and sports memorabilia, installed in a train station, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Raft Road.

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20 Seyed Alavi

Flying Carpet. An 18-by-150-foot carpet showing aerial views of the Sacramento River Valley, commissioned for the Sacramento airport by the city's Art in Public Places program.

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21 Ed Carpenter

Dream Leaves. Clusters of 31-foot-high steel-and-glass tam plants mark the entrance to Kakaako Waterfront Park and the new John A. Burns School of Medicine, a state commission.

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