For the first time, the Public Art Fund has gotten involved, too, though not as a seller.
It became one of the Public Art Fund's most popular projects.
The cost of the project, $270,000, was the most the 20-year-old Public Art Fund has spent on a single artist.
The Public Art Fund is organizing the programs for the park.
This month, the Public Art Fund starts its 10th-anniversary season with more projects on view - and more in the works - than ever before.
In 1977, the Public Art Fund was founded to reinvent this ideal for the modern city.
Venus was restored in 1998 with the support of the Public Art Fund.
The Public Art Fund was formed in 1977 in a merger of the two groups.
That's not to say that the Public Art Fund has abandoned its efforts to show the work of younger artists.
It was not commissioned by the Public Art Fund.