We can generally tell if the wind is blowing north, south, east or west, but on a smaller scale, currents are a lot more complicated. And that’s something I didn’t really appreciate before Windswept.

The 23-foot-tall work, installed by the Public Art Fund, will be the artist's first outdoor sculpture in New York. A rendering of Yinka Shonibare, Wind Sculpture (SG) I. Courtesy of the artist, James ...

Richard Taylor receives funding from The Australian Research Council, The Research Council for Science Advancement, and The WM Keck Foundation. Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” ...