Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York

Frieze New York recently announced the launch of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, created in partnership with Tishman Speyer, to be held annually at New York's historic Rockefeller Center. Curator Brett Littman (Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York) will oversee the new public outdoor display, which will open the week of April 23 in the lead-up to Frieze New York and will remain open through the end of June 2019. The launch of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center follows its establishment in London's Regent's Park, where a free summer displays of more than 20 sculptures and installations will be feature from July through October each year. Rockefeller Center was conceived by John D. Rockefeller as a "city within a city" and a "mecca for lovers of art." Each day, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors pass through its public spaces, where some of the world's most recognizable artworks include the Prometheus and Atlas sculptures, and Jose Maria Sert and Sir Frank Brangwyn's majestic murals at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, as well as, fittingly, Isamu Noguchi's News (1940), commissioned for the Associated Press building. For the launch edition of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, Brett Littman will select and place contemporary sculpture across the landmark site, presented with world-leading galleries. The full list of participating galleries and artists will be announced in the Spring. Brett Littman said: "It is very exciting to be working on such a farreaching project with Frieze New York and Rockefeller Center. My goal for Frieze Sculpture this year is to curate an immersive campus-wide installation that is responsive to the architecture and Noguchi's bas relief News (1940). I plan to include a diverse group of international artists, many of whom have not sited public sculpture in New York before, whose works are conscious of our current political moment and question how sculpture operates in our contemporary world."