Formerly the home of the Miami Art Museum, the Philip Johnson-designed Miami-Dade Cultural Center is replete with public art, including sculptures in the central court, Ed Ruscha's "WORDS WITHOUT THOUGHTS NEVER TO HEAVON GO", and (what Curbed calls) the Centrust Gravestone by George Sanchez-Calderon underneath the elevated Metrorail tracks.

Sculptor of giant-sized things, Claes Oldenburg built a giant, shattered, bowl of orange peals and slices, around a fountain in the park behind Government Center. The piece was installed in 1989 and inaugurated in 1990.

22 fins from decommissioned 1960s nuclear submarines are scattered around Pelican Harbor Park and Marina in North Bay Village. Artist John Young arranged the fins to suggest a pod of dolphins.

Brian Tolle's Tempest just outside the Bass Museum of Art recalls the waves of the Altantic ocean nearby, or maybe a hurricane's cyclonic whirl. Go at night, it glows.

When he remodeled the eastern end of Lincoln Road in 1999, architect Carlos Zapata created this entry feature consisting of a flying canopy and fountain.

This husband and wife team, oldschool Miami artists, created a giant M outside the Riverwalk Metromover Station to symbolize a new Miami in 1996. The M could stand for "Metromover," then a new addition to downtown, "Miami," or even "Magic City."

MIA has a substantial collection of public art, in the sense that the public has to buy a plane ticket to see much of it. The art, however, adds to the general impressiveness of Miami International Airport, and doesn't Miami deserve a grand gateway? Barbara Neijna's Foreverglades bas relief courses through a concourse, and includes text from Marjorie Stonaman Douglas's "River of Grass" that travelers experience as they traverse the airport. Meanwhile, Michele Oka Doner has created many of the airport's terrazzo floors, inlaid with intricate gold ocean motifs.

Jim Morrison's installation of neon tubing around palm trees at the end of the Julia Tuttle Causeway (more recently replaced by color changing LEDs) was first meant as lighting for New Years, but became an instant landmark, and are now an iconic entry feature to the City of Miami Beach.

Bal Harbour's reasonably new public art program, Unscripted, has featured temporary installations by two great Miami artists: George Sanchez-Calderon, and Christy Gast.

Marlins Park contains a variety of sculptures on its grounds, from Daniel Arsham's ode to the stadium's predecessor, the Orange Bowl, "A Memorial Bowing", and Red Grooms' much maligned home run sculpture.

The Bass Museum's terrific public art program, 'temporary contemporary,' includes an epically long hopscotch game by artist Agustina Woodgate that courses around the museum and through Miami Beach. The museum scatters other pieces throughout its neighborhood and the city that often explore the ideas of communication, interaction between environments, site, and urbanity, and architecture.