Join Times Square Arts, Creative Time, artist Shahzia Sikander, curator and cultural leader Tom Finkelpearl, and critic and researcher Danielle Jackson for a conversation that will dig into how the politics of commercial and civic spaces have intersected with public art. From the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, to partnerships between private companies and public spaces, public art has been an important nexus in the negotiation of what artworks can be shown – and where. Taking the decades-long history of public art on the billboards of Times Square as a starting point — from Creative Time's 59th Minute, 44 1/2 and MTV Art Breaks to Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment program — we'll discern how artists have navigated New York City’s ever-changing local politics, municipal bureaucracies, commercial interests, public perception and cultural shifts over time.