सुकुरात स्कल्पचर पार्क एक सामुदायिक जुड़ाव वाला न्यूयॉर्क शहर का वाटरफ्रंट पार्क है कलाकारों का समर्थन करने के लिए समर्पित सार्वजनिक कला के निर्माण और प्रस्तुति में।.
पार्क में acontecimiento
मार्क डी सुवेरोएक कल्पना कि यदि लोगों को उनके तरीके से काम करने की अनुमति दी जाए तो उनकी उत्पादक ऊर्जा क्या कर सकती थी रचनात्मक, वह था खोलो, और वह था किसी न किसी तरह समर्थित.
सुकरात के माध्यम से समय
एन संग्रह और मौखिक इतिहास
हमारी 40वीं वर्षगांठ मनाने के लिए
सोक्रेटीस अपने चालीस साल पुराने अभिलेखागार में बड़े पैमाने पर निवेश के माध्यम से पहली बार अपने संस्थागत ज्ञान को सार्वजनिक रूप से सुलभ बना रहा है। यह कार्य एक मौखिक इतिहास परियोजना द्वारा पूरक है जो पड़ोसियों और पूर्व छात्रों कलाकारों के साथ आयोजित इसके ऐतिहासिक रिकॉर्ड का विस्तार और जटिलता बढ़ाती है। न केवल हमारे अतीत को संरक्षित करने की इच्छा से प्रेरित होकर, यह कार्य इसके कथानक का विस्तार और गहरा करता है, जिसमें कई आवाजों और दृष्टिकोणों को प्रमुखता से रखा गया है जो इस जगह की विशिष्टता में निहित हैं और पार्क की जटिल, विकसित होती पहचान को दर्शाते हैं।.
Rena Julieta Hanono
I Have & I Have Nothing
Germaine Keller
Catwalk
Rachel Higgins
Don’t Worry about Buildings and Food
Nicolas Paris
Untitled (Multiple Do Its)
जोडी पिंटो
Watchtower for Hallett’s Cove
Dirk Van Dall
Entrance 87; Socrates Sculpture Park: Zero to Infinity; Mark di Suvero — Storm King
अशीर्षक
Chris Boyd Taylor
Conewango
Heide Fasnacht
Suspect Terrain
The Place to Sit
जुड़े रहें
देखिये हम क्या कर रहे हैं
This summer, the Park has been a classroom.
Coastal Classroom, with @cpfnyc, had middle schoolers out on the water doing hands-on science: rowing, fishing, seining, and birdwatching their way through a marine ecosystem in their own backyard. @idig2learn, led by Christine Delfico, brought elementary students from HANAC Cornerstone (@hanacinc) and @vbgcqueens together to build a pollinator garden and make art from what they found in it.
Teens joined us from @noguchimuseum`s Teen Program, @whitneymuseum`s Youth Insights Program, and @nycsoilandwater. And through a new partnership with @swimcoalition, we`ve been testing water quality weekly all season to track the health of NYC`s waterways.
We asked the students one question: what is nature?
"Beautiful." "Colorful, not just green." "Important." "It helps us breathe." "It makes us happy."
Welcome, too, to our new interns: Itzhak Austria, Shiyan Chen, Sophia Morrison, and Aiden Rodriguez.
"Parks are more than green spaces. They are classrooms, gathering places, and catalysts for community." Richard Morales, Director of Public Programs
Full recap at the link in our bio.
Color, music, and the joy of giving. On Sunday, July 26 (12–6PM), Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Nueva York (@bfmny) brings its annual Guelaguetza Festival to Socrates.
Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word for "offering"—the reciprocal exchange of gifts. Born in Oaxaca City, the celebration gathers the region`s eight communities in traditional dress to dance, sing, and give to the crowd. Come for an afternoon of Oaxacan tradition, including the beloved "Dance of the Pineapple."
Free with RSVP. Link in bio 🔗
#SocratesSculpturePark #Guelaguetza #BFMNY #FolkloricoDance #Oaxaca #MexicanCulture #QueensNYC #LongIslandCity #CommunityCelebration
Get out on the water—for free. On Saturday, July 18 (12–3PM), the LIC Community Boathouse (@liccboathouse) offers free community kayaking right from Socrates` beach at Hallet`s Cove.
No experience needed, equipment provided, all ages welcome (under 18 with a parent or guardian). First come, first served—no registration required. Weather permitting.
Check @liccboathouse Stories the morning of in case of cancellation.
#SocratesSculpturePark #LICBoathouse #Kayaking #HalletsCove #QueensNYC #LongIslandCity #EastRiver #OutdoorsNYC
Put your hands in the clay. On Saturday, July 18 (11AM–1PM), join artist Harumi Ori and an educator from @noguchimuseum for a hands-on Field Guide workshop on the waterfront.
We`ll shape clay and gather found objects across Socrates to build mixed-media sculptures—inspired by how Isamu Noguchi combined materials to express the forces of nature. Every participant heads home with a free pass to The Noguchi Museum, just across the street.
Free with RSVP. Space is limited to 25, so register early. All ages welcome; under 18 with an adult. Link in bio. 🔗
Rain check! 🌧️ Weather moved us, but Public Sounds with Geller (@gellermusic) is still on—we’re just gathering a day later.
New date: Sunday, July 12, 4–7PM. Same free outdoor synth performance on the waterfront, same euphoric soundscapes under the open sky.
See you Sunday. ☀️
Socrates is bringing back Outdoor Cinema. 🎬
For years, summer nights on our waterfront meant free films under the stars with our neighbors, families, and friends. Movies were only part of it.
Outdoor Cinema was proof of what public space can do: bring people together across cultures, experiences, and perspectives, right here in Queens.
For our 40th anniversary, we`re working to bring this tradition home. Our goal: $50,000, raised entirely through community support.
Every gift, one-time or monthly through the Community Council, helps return Outdoor Cinema to the Park and keeps our programming free all year long.
This is 40 years of community-powered transformation. Help us begin again.
🔗 Link in bio, or visit SocratesSculpturePark.org/outdoorcinema
Bring a blanket, bring a friend, and let the synths wash over you. On Sunday, July 12, LA-based electronic artist and composer Geller (@gellermusic) brings Public Sounds to Socrates for a free outdoor performance on the waterfront.
Sunday, July 12 · 4-7PM · Free
What started as an impromptu gathering of 50 people in a Los Angeles park has grown into a series drawing thousands across cities—euphoric electronic textures, immersive soundscapes, and the simple, communal act of listening together in the open air.
Learn more. Link in bio 🔗
Homecoming, Chapter One: Chakaia Booker (@chakaiabooker).
Some artists never really leave Socrates. They carry it with them, and one day they come home. This is the first in a series welcoming back the artists who built here, beginning with Chakaia Booker, whose monumental work has returned to our grounds in Homecoming, on view through April 2027.
Booker first came to Socrates early in her career, drawn by something rare: a place where an artist could work at scale, with their hands, before the rest of the world made room for them.
“Socrates and I are kindred spirits," she says. "We saw opportunity and potential in one another."
Working here "opened doors that have stayed open ever since."
It`s a kinship rooted in how artists see:
"The potential of a space or a material is far more important than its present state… What something was or is is less important than what something can become. We are artists, accustomed to the hard work of turning an idea into a reality."
These homecomings are part of something bigger: for the first time in our four-decade history, we`re building a public record of the people who imagined, built, and transformed Socrates from a riverside landfill into a home for art and public life. The Point Digital Archives and Oral History Project goes live soon. Learn more and add your own story at the link in bio.
Homecoming: Chakaia Booker is on view through April 2027. Always open. Always free.
Video: Petit Monsieur for Socrates Sculpture Park
Homecoming: John Morse
On view July 4 – November 2026
Thirty years ago, an American flag flew above Socrates, painted with folds that blurred into the real ones as it moved in the wind. John Morse`s Flying Flag Flying (1995) turned one of the nation`s most familiar images into a perceptual puzzle, collapsing the line between image and object, illusion and reality.
Shortly after it was installed, it was stolen—one of the only works ever to disappear from the Park.
This summer, it comes home.
Reinstalled at the site of the Park`s former Broadway Billboard, the flag returns in the year of the United States` 250th anniversary—an invitation to look again at a symbol we think we know, and to ask for whom its promises of democracy, freedom, and belonging have truly carried validity, possibility, and hope.
Its return is also a homecoming for an idea: that the archive is not a closed record but a living resource, capable of bringing past artists, questions, and provocations into dialogue with the present.
More than three decades after it vanished, Flying Flag Flying flies again—and with it, the enduring power of public art to spark curiosity, conversation, and debate.
Homecoming: John Morse is part of our 40th anniversary series welcoming alumni artists back into the life of the Park.
On view July 4–November 2026.
To open our 40th anniversary gala, poet Dr. Mahogany L. Browne (@mobrowne) offered a special invocation, reminding us why we began, and why we begin again.
“Begin again means:
muscle through the rubble.
Root yourself in refusal.
Let the artists strange the skyline
And question the ordinary
until the ordinary breaks open
like grief,
like an artist who finally
says the thing they’ve been
swallowing since Tuesday.
Memory more spine than sentiment
Word to Aggie, Word to Richard, Word to Enrico & Word to Shaun
From the mouths of the most longing a park of citizens rose with hope from the longing watering line
You should know
soil will not stay wasted.
You should know
Revolutionaries move like the river when they’re told to stop.”
In Remembrance: Aggie Gund, Richard Menschel, Mel Edwards, Joel Shapiro, John Morse, and Robin Key.
And thank you to all who have and continue to root themselves in and at Socrates now, then, and for decades to come.
#beginagain #socratessculpturepark
Today’s the day. 🌞 Join us starting at 5pm to celebrate the Summer Solstice and the opening of The 2026 Socrates Annual.
Watch @nxsmourino, Cuban-American, Brooklyn-based and this year’s Devra Freelander Fellow, bring Massage Core to life. Built onsite since March in ceramic tile and concrete, Massage Core is a communal sculpture made to be touched, leaned on, and sat upon — a textured homage to the bumpy pillars of MTA platforms that Nicole uses as a personal massage tool, and to the urban movement practice of “park-core.” It’s an architecture for rest, release, and physical engagement in the middle of the park.
Nicole works across charcoal, polymers, oil, and cement, drawing from the storefront windows of NYC’s bodegas, botanicas, and peluquerías to explore beauty, desire, and identity.
Catch the work in progress in the video, then come see it in person tonight. ⬇️
📅 The 2026 Socrates Annual: Summer Solstice Opening Celebration
🗓️ Sunday, June 21 | 5–8:30pm
📍 Socrates Sculpture Park
🎟️ Free with RSVP (link in bio)
The evening features DJ Christian Martir of Sociedad Life, a sunset paddle with the LIC Community Boathouse, Bomba and Plena with Juan Usera + La Tribu del Juey Sambuco, poetry by Caridad De La Luz (LA BRUJA), and hands-on artmaking.
And at 8:15pm, don’t miss a live movement-based performance by Rebecca Gual, created as part of Nicole’s Massage Core.
Art, music, community, and summer on the waterfront. See you tonight. 🌅
Opening Sunday, June 21 | “La Carreta Made a U-Turn” — a full-scale cart in modular wood and iron, bent into a “U,” fabricated by 2026 Artist Fellow Josué Guarionex (@josueguarionex_art).
The title borrows from Tato Laviera’s 1979 poetry collection, written in response to René Marqués’s 1953 play “La Carreta”. Across decades and across the ocean, both wrote about Puerto Rican migration; identity, nostalgia, and what it means to belong. Josué carries that whole conversation into three dimensions: departure and return, loss and reconstruction, homeland and exile. The U-turn isn’t only a way back home. It’s a gesture of resistance, a community redefining its own direction against the forces that push it to move.
Join us Sunday, June 21, 5–8:30PM for The Socrates Annual 2026: Summer Solstice Opening Celebration. On the longest day of the year, we’re marking 30 years of the Socrates Annual Fellowship the way this work has always begun: with the artists themselves.
→ 6:15pm — Poetry by Caridad De La Luz, LA BRUJA (@labrujanyc), within Josué’s La Carreta Made a U-Turn
RSVP free at the link in bio. 🔗