Municipal Art Society
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The Municipal Art Society (MAS), is an arts organization on Madison Avenue in New York City, which deals with public art in the city. It also champions the study of urban planning and design through its exhibits (at the Urban Center gallery), seminars, educational programs, and community workshops. Its chairman is Philip K. Howard.
According to the MAS website, in 1893, a group of New York artists, architects and interested laymen organized the society to provide city parks and public buildings with the finest murals and sculptures, financed by Society dues. “To make us love our city,” they declared, “we must make our city lovely.” Its first president was Richard Morris Hunt. Many MAS founders were also active in the City Beautiful movement. The first major MAS project, commissioned in 1894, was a series of murals — “Justice,” “The Fates” and “The Rights of Man” — by Edward Emerson Simmons to decorate the interior of the Criminal Courthouse at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan. This court is the criminal branch of New York Supreme Court where many New Yorkers serve on Jury Duty.
With Creative Time MAS helped produce Tribute in Light.
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