New York City Public Design Commission

{{Short description|New York City government agency}}

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| formed = {{Start date|1898}}

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| jurisdiction = New York City

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| chief1_name = Deborah Marton

| chief1_position = President

| chief2_name = Sreoshy Banerjea

| chief2_position = Executive Director

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| keydocument1 = New York City Charter

| website = {{URL|http://www.nyc.gov/designcommission}}

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The New York City Public Design Commission, previously the Municipal Art Commission, is the agency of the New York City government that reviews permanent works of architecture, landscape architecture, and art proposed on or over city-owned property.{{cite web|title=About|publisher=Public Design Commission|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/about/about.page|accessdate=December 26, 2016}}

The Art Commission was established in 1898, the same year as the consolidation of New York City, as a response to the City Beautiful Movement that sprung up around the time of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.{{Cite web|url=http://www.designtrust.org/|title=Design Trust for Public Space|website=Design Trust for Public Space}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/new-york-city-art-commission/|title=New York City Art Commission |}} Its members were instrumental in the creation of the 1956 Bard Act. Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks, Anthony Wood, Routledge, 2013 It fought the Robert Moses proposals to build a Brooklyn Battery Bridge and to demolish the Castle Clinton in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was renamed by mayor Michael Bloomberg on July 21, 2008 as the Public Design Commission, except where the legal name "Art Commission" is required.Designation of the Art Commission as the Public Design Commission, [http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/executive_orders/2008EO119.pdf Executive Order No. 119]{{cite news|title=The Art Commission Gets a Truer Name|first=David|last=Dunlap|date=July 22, 2008|work=The New York Times City Room Blog|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/the-art-commission-gets-a-truer-name/}}

The Public Design Commission comprises 11 members who, by law, must include an architect, a landscape architect, a painter, a sculptor, and three lay members, as well as representatives of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Mayor of New York City.New York City Charter § 851