Earlier this month, the AGAR team was back in our element at Bar Convent Brooklyn (BCB), the premier international trade fair and networking event for the bar, beverage, and hospitality industry. Over an action-packed week at the historic Industry C...
2026 Public Art Trends
Where Culture Moves Next
Public art and placemaking are entering a new era, one shaped by movement, cultural identity, and the transformation of everyday space into shared experience. What once served as backdrop is now center stage: streets become galleries, storefronts become studios, and transit corridors become moments of discovery. Culture is no longer confined to destinations – it lives in the journey. These cultural forces come into focus through four distinct trends, signals we’re watching that point to the next chapter of public art, placemaking, and shared experience.
- ARTFLUENCE — Where commerce meets culture
- KINETIC SCULPTURE — Movement matters in public art
- CULTURAL RETAIL DISTRICTS — Curated artist programs as place identity
- TRANSIT GATEWAYS — Travel zones as cultural canvases
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AGAR Inspiration
BLINK Reveals 90 Artists, New Opening Event for 2026
Artists are sketching. Buildings are being mapped. The city is already starting to glow. BLINK organizers on Monday unveiled more than 90 artists selected for the 2026 festival and announced plans for a new opening-night celebration, roughly 20 new m...
Key Takeaways from Experiential Marketing Summit 2026
The AGAR team touched down in Las Vegas last month for the Experiential Marketing Summit. In a world heavily saturated by digital transaction, this year’s summit sent a clear signal: the industry is shifting toward authentic human connection, intui...
AGAR moves to downtown Cincinnati
Agar, the rapidly growing creative agency behind Blink and many other projects, has completed the move of its headquarters office to downtown Cincinnati. Learn more: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2026/05/12/agar-blink-office-move-downto...
AGAR ‘Afterimage’ projection art heading to Vivid Sydney
CINCINNATI (WKRC) – A Cincinnati-based experimental company is taking its projection-mapping work to Australia as part of a major international festival. AGAR, an experimental company co-created by one of the creators of BLINK, is participating...