Artist Yinka Shonibare has created a massive sculpture commissioned by the Public Art Fund for Doris C. Freedman Plaza. “Monumental in scale and imposingly sited on axis with the entrance to Central Park, Yinka Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture (SG) I assumes the aspect of a classical civic monument,” says Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund. “Its patterned, fluttering sail suggests the geographical, cultural, and personal layers of a migration borne aloft on the cross currents of colonial history.”

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