'Sean Scully: Broadway Shuffle' to be unveiled in New York, 12 July

8 July 2024

On 12 July 2024, a series of sculptures by Sean Scully will be unveiled along Broadway in New York City, forming 'Broadway Shuffle', a new public art commission presented by the Broadway Mall Association.

Seven large-scale sculptures – each one a unique vertical stack composed from various configurations of metal, stone and wood – will be presented at seven locations along the green medians at the center of Broadway from Lincoln Square to Washington Heights. The Broadway Mall Association Board of Directors President, Nancy G. Chaffetz, stated: “This summer artist Sean Scully offers a most generous gift to the New York City public, ‘Sean Scully: Broadway Shuffle.’ On behalf of the Broadway Mall Association, many thanks to the artist, NYC Parks and Lisson Gallery for making the exhibition possible.”

The artist recently said: “Broadway is legendary, and it has been mythologized in art and song. I called my project “Shuffle” after a dance, in the same way that Mondrian, another geometric immigrant, called his painting “Boogie Woogie.” I love the idea of my blocks and stacks punctuating the endless rhythm of Broadway.”

The exhibition is organized in partnership with NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program and Lisson Gallery, with assistance from the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District. On view for eight months, until March 2025, Scully’s “Broadway Shuffle” is the fourteenth exhibition to be presented by the Broadway Mall Association since the founding of its Art on the Malls program in 2005.

Find out more via The Broadway Mall Association.

Photography by Tom Barratt.