"For the first time since its inception in 1907, the city’s famed New Year’s ball will drop — and mark the start of 2021 — in an empty Times Square. Instead, the in-person event — which typically draws more than one million revelers to the Crossroads of the World to see live performances and watch the glittering sphere descend its pole from atop One Times Square — will be held virtually over rising COVID-19 infection-rate concerns.

 

In this virtual component, Times Square’s billboards will be replaced with digital artworks, whose flair will flow into a virtual art exhibit called “HI-RESOLUTION,” which users can find at street level. The show will display more than 60 pieces of digital works from some 45 artists" - New York Post