The Twenty-Fifth Times Square Billboard Showcase
Date: September 6, 2026
Location: Times Square, New York City
Format: Full-day rotation on a monumental digital screen
For one day, the screen that usually sells something showed nothing for sale.
On September 6, Visual Art Journal held its twenty-fifth Times Square Billboard Showcase. Paintings, photographs and digital works by artists from more than a dozen countries appeared several storeys above the pavement, cycling through the day while the intersection below did what it always does.
Participating Artists
Michael Voynov
Yolanda Ramirez Goldsack
Trinity Evelyn | Equilateral
Elmira Zueva
Benoît Flamérion
Anastasiya Ihnatovich
Timeea Ionela Brandas
Sammi Eady
Mario Schuster
Qinian Li
Tatjana Danilovic
Beatrisz Hegyi-Tarsoly
Sofia-Karla Axelsson
Daniel Ramalan / Flameousart
Marina Ćosić Trbara
Tylen Lambert
Léon Émile Loizeau
Olga Murtaeva
Paul Hendricks
Karthik Balasubramanian
Sari Fishman
Tanisha Jha
What the format gives an artist
Times Square is not a gallery, and that is the point. There is no wall text, no queue, no invitation list. The audience is whoever happens to look up – tourists, commuters, people waiting for someone. An image either holds that half-second of attention or it does not. Every work in this showcase held it.