New Flags, Photo Exhibit Coming To Rockefeller Center

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Two new outdoor public art exhibitions are set to open at Rockefeller Center later this month, involving photographs that will be displayed in very different forms.

The first of the two exhibitions opening on March 27 is the Flag Project, in which photographers were invited to submit works that would be reproduced as flags and flown from 83 flagpoles around Rockefeller Center.

In addition to the chosen submissions, the installation will include works by guest photographers including Kwame Brathwaite, Nan Goldin, Tyler Mitchell and others.

The same day will mark the opening of an exhibition of street and subway photographs by Jamel Shabazz, taken throughout the city over a period of 40 years.

Fourteen of Shabazz's photographs will be blown up onto seven-foot-tall lightboxes and installed around Rockefeller Center's plazas.

This year is the second iteration of the Flag Project, which began last year as part of an effort to lift the city's spirits and celebrate art during the depths of the coronavirus crisis. It will be on view until April 25.