John Ahearn is an American sculpture best known for his public art and street art. In 1991, he was commissioned by the 44th Police Precinct in the Bronx to create a series of sculptures. The sculptures were later relocated to Socrates Sculpture Park, where they reside today.<\/p>\n
The sculptures, also known as the ‘South Bronx Bronzes’ prompted a debate on who gets to make public art and who it is for. Read more in Jane Kramer\u2019s 1992 article for the New Yorker, \u201chttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/artwork\/cory\/Whose-Art-Is-It-The-New-Yorker.pdfWhose Art Is It.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6427,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"exhibition-theme":[],"class_list":["post-6426","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-theme?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}