New York City Public Design Commission

The New York City Public Design Commission, known legally as the Art Commission, is the agency of the New York City government that reviews permanent works of architecture, landscape architecture, and art proposed on or over city-owned property.[1]

Public Design Commission
Commission overview
Formed1898 (1898)
JurisdictionNew York City
Commission executive
  • Signe Nielsen, President
Key document
Websitewww.nyc.gov/designcommission

The Art Commission comprises 11 members who, by law, must include an architect, a landscape architect, a painter, a sculptor, and three lay members, as well as representatives of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Mayor of New York City.[2] It was renamed by mayor Michael Bloomberg on July 21, 2008 as the Public Design Commission, except where the legal name "Art Commission" is required.[3][4]

References
  1. "About". Public Design Commission. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  2. New York City Charter ยง 851
  3. Designation of the Art Commission as the Public Design Commission, Executive Order No. 119
  4. Dunlap, David (July 22, 2008). "The Art Commission Gets a Truer Name". The New York Times City Room Blog.
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