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"It\u2019s been a long winter of shuttling between galleries and museums, but now that spring seems to have finally arrived in New York City \u2014 don\u2019t jinx it! \u2014 and summer just around the corner, it\u2019s time for art\u2019s seasonal migration back out into the streets, parks, and public spaces. To help you navigate the best outdoor art offerings in New York City over the next several months, ARTINFO has assembled this comprehensive (hopefully) borough-by-borough guide. From Ugo Rondinone\u2019s megaliths at the foot of 30 Rock, to an ephemeral sculpture park at a meat distribution plant in Bushwick, these are 2013\u2019s must-see public art installations.MANHATTAN\u201CAfter Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery\u201D on Bowery between Houston and Grand Street, through September 29For its second iteration, once again timed to coincide with the New Museum\u2019s Ideas City festival, the Art Production Fund (with an assist from Sotheby\u2019s) has signed up a star-filled roster of artists to create murals on the roll-down metal shutters of businesses along the Bowery, resulting in a stellar nocturnal art show featuring contributions from Dana Schutz, Mel Bochner, Wendy White, Daniel Buren, Alex Israel, and more.El Anatsui,&amp;nbsp;\u201CBroken Bridge II\u201D&amp;nbsp;on the High Line between West 21st and 22nd Streets, through summer 2013The Ghana-born, Nigeria-based master tinkerer of tin quilting has switched materials slightly, deploying pressed tin and mirrors in this fa\u00E7ade-wrapping installation that, between the trees growing below it and the sky reflected in it, seems unexpectedly and delightfully ethereal given its enormous scale.Uri Aran, \u201CUntitled (Good &amp;amp; Bad)\u201D on the High Line between West 25th and West 26th Streets, through August Another easily-missed High Line piece, Aran\u2019s sound installation consists of the recitation of a list of names of animals, ranging from the common to the exotic. The recording \u2014 emitted from the garden beds on 25th Street \u2014 is conceptually interesting, but would be better suited to an enclosed environment.Alexandre Arrechea on the Park Avenue Median between 53rd and 67th&amp;nbsp;Streets, through June 9Cuban artist and former member of Los Carpinteros Alexandre Arrechea has re-formed ten of New York\u2019s most famous skyscrapers into fantastical miniatures with altered lines, shapes, and colors. Buildings curve impossibly and wind in upon themselves in a whimsical statement on the shifting needs of urban architecture.&amp;nbsp;Watch ARTINFO video.Art Students League, 2nd Annual \u201CModel to Monument (M2M)\u201D at Riverside Park, through MayInspired by Riverside Park itself, the works exhibited here \u2014 created by seven students at the Art Students League \u2014 explore ideas of flux through large-scale, abstract sculptures that are just one part in a three-site installation reaching to Riverside Park South and Van Cortland Park.Alan Binstock, \u201CWayfinder, Trance Ender, Third Portal\u201D at Fort Tyron Park through September 13Three works influenced by Florida-based sculptor Alan Binstock\u2019s interest in deep space navigation and Eastern metaphysics are placed along the garden paths, playing with and reflecting foliage colors while subtly suggesting pathways for both internal and external discovery.Carol Bove, \u201CCaterpillar\u201D on the High Line at the Rail Yards, May 2013 \u2013 May 2014The overgrown wilds of the High Line will be home to seven of Carol Bove\u2019s large scale sculptural works for the next year. This off-the-beaten-path exhibition will require advance reservations.\u201CBusted\u201D on the High Line, through April 2014This cleverly titled High Line Commission exhibition features works that break with the conventions of the traditional portrait bust and monumental statue. Most of the nine artists included do so playfully, as with Andra Ursuta\u2019s marble nose in a wheelbarrow, \u201CNose Job,\u201D and Sean Landers\u2019s kilt-wearing statue of a satyr. Goshka Macuga\u2019s bust of Colin Powell in the now-iconic pose he struck while showing \u201Cevidence\u201D of Iraq\u2019s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, however, connotes a different kind of busted. (A tenth sculpture, its subject determined by a public vote, will join the exhibition in the fall.)Orly Genger, \u201CRed, Yellow and Blue\u201D at Madison Square Park, May 2&amp;nbsp;\u2014&amp;nbsp;September 81.4 million feet of rope collected along the beaches of the East Coast and over 3,000 gallons of red, yellow, and blue paint come together in a massive, interactive work, winding its way through the park, re-defining boundaries, and inviting visitors to discover hidden spaces within the park.Oscar Mu\u00F1oz,&amp;nbsp;\u201CRe/trato\u201D&amp;nbsp;on the High Line Channel at 22nd Street, 8 p.m.&amp;nbsp;\u2014&amp;nbsp;10 p.m. daily through May 31In this short film projected nightly onto the park-adjacent wall at West 22nd Street, the Columbian artist uses a paintbrush and water to create a self-portrait on the sidewalk. As his image starts to evaporate he begins repainting it, making for an endless loop of inscription and erasure that becomes an eloquent rumination on identity and memory.Virginia Overton,&amp;nbsp;\u201CUntitled\u201D on the High Line at 20th Street, through summerSitting a few feet below the High Line within a commercial parking structure, Overton\u2019s truck is easily missed, and just as easily misunderstood. As one visitor stated last week, \u201CIt just looks like a truck with a bunch of bricks in the back.\u201DAlbert Paley,&amp;nbsp;\u201CPaley on Park Avenue\u201D&amp;nbsp;on Park Avenue between 52nd and 67th Streets, June 29 \u2014 November 8With their massive limbs of looping, coiling, and glittering steel, Paley\u2019s latest sculptures, conceived especially for the Park Avenue median, should prove to be fairly apt visualizations of Midtown traffic patterns. The huge works, each weighing between 2.5 and 7.5 tons and reaching heights of up to 21 feet, give gridlocked drivers plenty to gawk at during rush hour.Andrew Rogers, \u201CIndividuals\u201D at Dag Hammarskj\u00F6ld Plaza (near the UN), May 7&amp;nbsp;\u2014&amp;nbsp;September 13Australian land artist Andrew Rogers brings a series of 15 conch-shaped bronze sculptures to the steps of the United Nations. With some \u201CIndividuals\u201D standing up to 24 feet in height, the works are a large-scale statement on the relationship between individuals and the collective.Ugo Rondinone, \u201CHuman Nature\u201D in Rockefeller Plaza, through June 7 A site-specific installation, \u201CHuman Nature\u201D highlights the contrast between the primal and the urban, with nine human-shaped figures composed of bluestone slabs towering up to 20 feet high in the middle of Rockefeller Plaza.&amp;nbsp;Watch ARTINFO video.Thomas Sch\u00FCtte, \u201CUnited Enemies\u201D in Central Park, through August 25The German sculptor\u2019s tripedal, larger-than-life cast-bronze figures of men with eerily vacant cartoon faces are bound in pairs beneath robes and rope. Conceived as a response to political corruption in Italy, they bring a surprisingly light touch to Central Park\u2019s southeastern plaza.Superflex, \u201CModern Times Forever\u201D on the High Line Channel 14 at 14th Street, daily beginning at 7 p.m., May 7&amp;nbsp;\u2014&amp;nbsp;June 19Nightly screenings of a 10-hour film imagining and projecting what would happen to Helsinki\u2019s Stora Enso building if it was left to the natural elements over thousands of years will take place in the 14th Street passageway.QUEENSdo it (outside), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at Socrates Sculpture Park, May 12 \u2014&amp;nbsp;July 7For the past 20 years, artists, performers, community groups, and the public have participated in the conceptual avant-garde work, \u201Cdo it,\u201D by following artist instructions to realize works. Over 60 pieces created in this secondary fashion and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist will be exhibited out of doors for the first time in the history of the installation.Chitra Ganesh,&amp;nbsp;\u201CHer Nuclear Waters\u201D&amp;nbsp;at Socrates Sculpture Park, May 12 \u2014&amp;nbsp;August 5The latest artist to grace the park\u2019s Broadway Billboard space, Brooklyn-born and -based artist Chitra Ganesh will create an 11-by-28 foot image in her trademark style combining Pop art, Japanese print, expressionist and sci-fi comic book imagery into fantastical narratives with a feminist bent.MoMA PS1 VW Dome 2 at Rockaway Beach Boardwalk, through MayKlaus Biesenbach has brought his work to his vacation spot, where he and pal Patti Smith recently bought homes, helping the waterfront Rockaway community by providing a cultural center of sorts for a neighborhood that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Thus far the geodesic dome by the sea has hosted events like an impromptu performance by Smith, an urban beekeeping workshop, and art workshops presented by the Queens Museum.Heather Rowe, &amp;nbsp;\u201CBeyond the Hedges (Slivered Gazebo)\u201D&amp;nbsp;at Socrates Sculpture Park, May 13&amp;nbsp;\u2014&amp;nbsp;July 7Rowe works at the intersection of sculpture and architecture and for this site-specific installation she has created a mirrored gazebo, with lattices and trellises designed to offer viewers a re-structured and heightened experience of the natural environment surrounding the structure.Toshihiro Oki architect,&amp;nbsp;\u201Ctree wood\u201D&amp;nbsp;at Socrates Sculpture Park, May 12&amp;nbsp;\u2014&amp;nbsp;August 5For this year\u2019s \u201CFolly\u201D commission \u2014 a joint project between Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League of New York to commission a large-scale outdoor installation by an emerging architect \u2014 Toshihiro Oki architect will install the wooden frame small structure in the park\u2019s densely wooded grove. In addition to the trees rising through its beams, the open-air structure will feature an ornate chandelier suspended at its center.\u201CWelling Court Murals\u201D at Welling Court, begins in JuneEvery summer more than 50 street artists from all over the world descend upon this far-off corner of Astoria to repaint a dozen or so blocks with enormous new murals. Now in its fourth year, the Welling Court Murals program is on track to continue expanding and bringing out international talent, particularly with the demolition of the borough\u2019s other major street art venue, 5Pointz, facing the wrecking ball later this year.BROOKLYN\u201CConfigurations\u201D at MetroTech Center, through September 16For its latest group show animating this sterile corporate plaza in downtown Brooklyn, the Public Art Fund has brought together works by four women artists \u2014 Val\u00E9rie Bass, Katinka Bock, Esther Kl\u00E4s, and Allyson Vieira \u2014 that change dramatically as viewers move around them. Foremost among them are Vieira\u2019s three arches of steel and cinderblock, which reveal unexpected angular slices and views, and Kl\u00E4s\u2019s bright, pod-like aquaresin and concrete sculptures, which seem poised to spawn some chromatic monsters at a moment\u2019s notice.Akihiro Ito,&amp;nbsp;\u201CTomorrow\u201D&amp;nbsp;at Fort Greene Park, through AugustEver the optimist, Ito has created the stylized form of a giant baby out of some 600 pieces of laminated Douglas fir, emphasizing both the project\u2019s environmentally sound materials and its forward-thinking subject matter, a monument of sorts to the generations of tomorrow.\u201CRock Street 2013\u201D on Rock Street, June 1 \u2014&amp;nbsp;2Timed to coincide with Bushwick Open Studios, the Brooklyn neighborhood\u2019s all-out art weekend, gallerists Deborah Brown and Lesley Heller are curating this 19-artist outdoor sculpture show that will take over Rock Street, a one-block-long road typically used exclusively by the enormous Boar\u2019s Head meat distribution plant that straddles it. Local artists including Rico Gatson, Liz Atzberger, Ben Godward, Audra Wolowiec, Jack Henry, Kristof Wickman, and Ashley Zelinskie will present new works on the temporarily pedestrian block.Oscar Tuazon,&amp;nbsp;\u201CPeople\u201D&amp;nbsp;at Brooklyn Bridge Park, through October 13The three hybrid sculptural installations that make up this exhibition,&amp;nbsp;which fuse very obviously man-made elements like a fountain, concrete walls, and bunkers with tall, conspicuously leaf-less trees, seem perfectly at home in an under-construction park built atop a series of former industrial piers. That said, we\u2019ve still never seen anyone shooting baskets on the sculpture festooned with a basketball hoop.BRONX\u201CBronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial\u201D&amp;nbsp;at Wave Hill, June 22 \u2013 September 8Bringing together works by 24 emerging New York artists who have participated in the Bronx Museum\u2019s Artist in the Marketplace program over the past two years, the biennial is one of the few to take place in a setting as charming and peaceful as Wave Hill.\u201CDrawn to Nature\u201D at Wave Hill, through June 16 Works by seven contemporary artists who explore themes of nature \u2014 ranging from urban biodiversity to imagined landscapes and portraiture \u2014 through drawing and watercolor are exhibited in the Garden\u2019s Glyndor Gallery.Philip Haas,&amp;nbsp;\u201CFour Seasons\u201D&amp;nbsp;at the New York Botanical Garden, May 18 \u2014&amp;nbsp;October 27At once playfully stylized and thoroughly hyperrealist, Haas\u2019s series of sculptures are precisely rendered three-dimensional versions of Arcimboldo\u2019s iconic portraits, with enormous busts representing spring, summer, autumn, and winter made up of seasonal fruits, vegetables, and flowers. The monumental vegetal portraits should be perfectly at home in the Botanical Garden\u2019s verdant surroundings.Manolo Vald\u00E9s,&amp;nbsp;\u201CMonumental Sculpture\u201D&amp;nbsp;at the New York Botanical Garden, through May 26The Spaniard\u2019s series of seven large-scale sculptures draws its inspiration from the surrounding foliage, including a 17-foot-tall steel and bronze piece inspired by maple and oak trunks, and the 50-foot-wide aluminum construction \u201CButterflies.\u201D Each billowing, tree-like construction sits atop a massive head, which gives these metal plants airs of ornate hats and headdresses.To see highlights from this spring and summer's public art offerings in New York City, click the slideshow."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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