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Minetta Brook commissions new public art projects carried out in collaboration with major museums, galleries, colleges, private landowners and regional parks departments. Significant installations have included: Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project, in which 10 leading artists created site-specific works sited over more than 80 miles of river shoreline—from Bear Mountain State Park to Annandale-on-Hudson. Works included George Trakas' Beacon Point Project, an environmental sculpture at Beacon Landing; Christian Phillip Müller's Hudson Valley Tastemakers, a trench garden on the campus of Bard College; and Peter Hutton's Two Rivers, a film installation contrasting the Hudson and the Yangtze.

Other Minetta Brook installations have included the Thames and Hudson Rivers Project, which brought together artists from the United States and Europe to create works about the rivers and the cities through which they flow; Architectures of Display, a group of collaborative installations which investigated the form and effect of "display" in venues such as museums, commercial and civic spaces; riverrun, a show of film and video works that addressed structures of the urban environment; and Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island by Robert Smithson, a 30 x 90-foot barge landscaped with earth, rocks and native trees and shrubs, towed by a tugboat around the island of Manhattan and produced in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Year-round educational and public outreach programs complement the installations.