One of the best parts about our walks to visit artists and galleries close to campus, is the public art.  Public art not only enhances streetscapes, it also tranforms communities.  At the Highline, we saw the ways in which its public art helps develop local business, improve property value, and inspire new ways to think about the value of art.  The Madison Park installation, “Ideas in Stone” by Giuseppe Panone, integrates natural and human-made materials so that commuters can take a moment to contemplate the City’s relationship to nature.  And Micheal Shvo’s surreal “Sheep Station,” with Francois-Xavier Lalanne’s sheep sculptures “grazing” in a former Getty gas station, helps us remember why NYC is the world’s art capital.  Here are some of the installations we saw today.  What are your impressions of the public art you see around the city?