High Line Art

11/11/2024

Our community members, our public spaces, and our planet can provide opportunities for connection, joy, and inspiration. 🌎

We are honored to explore these themes as part of High Line Channel's premiere of Ezra Wube's "PROJECT ECOPOLIS." On Monday, November 18, Ezra, his fellow collaborators—Tanya Ward and Gloria I. Rivera from Englewood Agro-Eco District, Karen Farber from Buffalo Bayou, and Jordan Re*****on of Waterfront Park Seattle—and the High Line's Gabriella Malavé will be in New York City for the High Line Channel premiere and an artist talk.

The series of films will tour participating Network sites in 2024 and 2025, and we hope our films can inspire conversations, forge connections, and celebrate community resilience. If you'll be in New York City in November, we hope you save your spot for the upcoming artist talk and premiere!

📺 "Project Ecopolis," November 18, 2024 - January 7, 2025
📍 On the High Line at 14th Street
📆 Premiere and Artist Talk | November 18th at 6:30pm at The Theatre in the Rubin Museum
🎫 https://bit.ly/40ylJVz

11/11/2024

New York—thank you for spending all four seasons with us. 🌸

November 12th is the last day to view Lily van der Stokker’s “Thank You Darling” on the High Line!

Painted on the side of a building, van der Stokker’s work turning the architecture and shape of the edifice into the frame for the artist’s pastel and fluorescent-hued work. With classic example of playful adolescent penmanship, the mural reclaims, at massive scale, intimate language that is often mocked or disparaged as being feminine and unserious.

Don’t miss your last chance to see this mural at the park. Plan your visit and prepare share your gratitude with your loved ones and fellow parkgoers! 🫶

🎨 “Thank You Darling,” Lily van der Stokker’s
📍 Adjacent to the High Line at 22nd Street
📆 December 2023 — November 2024
🍃 https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/lily-van-der-stokker/
📸 Timothy Schenck, Liz Ligon, Rowa Lee

11/01/2024

Looking for a little extra guidance in your life? Ask a New Yorker!

We are honored to highlight the advice featured in High Line Art’s third High Line Originals commission, Alicia Mersy's "NYC WISDOM." With her camera and curiosity as a conduit for connection, Mersy spontaneously gathered “wisdom” she encountered from an electrifying collection of New Yorkers from all walks of life.

Thank you to Nadia, Andy, Julia, Alonzo, Franklyn, Henry, Zev, and Precenda for sharing your expertise with our city. Looking for some gems of "NYC WISDOM"? Read Alicia's conversation with Ali Rosa-Salas about her creative process and plan your visit to see "NYC WISDOM" on the big screen at the park on the High Line Channel!

📽️: “NYC WISDOM” by Alicia Mersy
📍: On the High Line at 14th Street
📆: September 2024 — November 2024
💻: https://www.thehighline.org/blog/2024/10/28/art-with-a-view-alicia-mersy-nyc-wisdom/

10/15/2024

Meet Iván Argote— the artist behind “Dinosaur,” the colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum that will be “landing” on the High Line this week. “Dinosaur” was first submitted as a proposal for the High Line Plinth in 2020, among 80 proposals that included the third High Line Plinth commission, Pamela Rosenkranz’s “Old Tree” (2023).

Iván Argote is the first Plinth artist from the global south, and the youngest yet. His work as an artist and filmmaker is heavily focused on social justice issues and historical processes, inspired by his childhood in Bogotá, as he grew up in a family with a long tradition of political and social activism. Through sculptures, installations, films, and interventions, Argote harnesses the power of humor and tenderness to question our intimate relationship with others, institutions, power, and belief systems.

With “Dinosaur,” Argote proposes a new symbolic use of public space, and challenges our traditional and accepted ideas of New York City’s iconic pigeons and what we choose to memorialize, revere, and remember. To learn more about “Dinosaur” ahead of its landing, use the link in our bio and plan your visit to the High Line to see it!

🖼️ “Dinosaur,” Iván Argote
📆October 2024 — Spring 2026
📍 On the High Line at the Spur, at 30th St. and 10th Ave.
💻 Link in bio
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10/10/2024

Save the date! In one week, a monumental pigeon sculpture will "land" on the High Line —and join the New York City skyline.

For the fourth High Line Plinth commission, Iván Argote presents "Dinosaur" (2024), a colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum. Towering 21 feet above the Spur, over the countless pedestrians and car drivers that travel down 10th Avenue, "Dinosaur" reverses the typical power dynamic between bird and human.

"Dinosaur"—like the iconic pigeons that inspired it—bears witness to New York City's evolution and confronts us with our ever-changing relationship with the natural world and its inhabitants. In preparation for "Dinosaur"'s arrival on the park, we want to know what you think about pigeons. Let us know what you think in the comments, and plan your visit to see "Dinosaur" in person!

📆 October 2024 — Spring 2026
📍 On the High Line at the Spur, at 30th St. and 10th Ave.
🌿https://bit.ly/3U5fBAf

10/08/2024

After four seasons “performing” on the Sunken Overlook, “What if They Bark” will be leaving the High Line at the end of October. 🐟✨

Over the course of the past year, Cosima von Bonin’s () anthropomorphic fish sculptures have delighted and welcomed park-goers and street-level passersby above the park’s iconic 10th Avenue Square. This humorous composition recalls the statue arrangement of ancient Greek temples, but instead of gods and heroes here the artist places sea creatures on land interacting with one another and doing human activities such as playing music.

Want to say your final goodbyes before the month ends? Let us know in the comments, and plan your next trip to the High Line.

📆 September 2023 – October 2024
📍On the High Line at the Sunken Overlook at 17th St.

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09/10/2024

Our 18 months with "Old Tree" have been so eventful and memorable. 🩷✨

As we prepare for the coming of our fourth High Line Plinth commission, our time together with Pamela Rosenkranz's monumental — and truly beloved — tree sculpture is coming to a close. Don't miss your chance for a final view of "Old Tree" on the Spur at 30th St and 10th Ave through September 29.

Throughout its time on the High Line, "Old Tree" has prompted New Yorkers and visitors to examine what is truly “artificial” or “natural” in our world. Standing at a height of 25 feet tall atop the Plinth and creating shade while casting an ever-changing, luminous aura amid New York’s changing seasons, "Old Tree" has generated a welcoming public space and a vibrant backdrop for events bringing together our city's dreamers.

Come by to bid adieu to "Old Tree" before Iván Argote's "Dinosaur" lands on the High Line this October. Plan your final visits to view "Old Tree" soon! 🌿

🌿: https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/pamela-rosenkranz/
📷: Timothy Schenck, Liz Ligon, Carlos Sanfer

09/03/2024

📽️: The Global Premiere of "NYC WISDOM" by Alicia Mersy
📍: On the High Line at 14th Street
📆: Tuesday, September 10th

Join us for the global premiere of "NYC Wisdom," a new short film by Alicia Mersy. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the artist and Ali Rosa-Salas, Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts for Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement.

For "NYC Wisdom," Mersy asked those around her, whom she affectionately calls “teachers,” to share what brings them happiness and energy. Her commission for the High Line ties together years of this footage, navigated by an animated butterfly drone that detects and records these salient moments of street wisdom.

The artist talk is free and open to the public. RSVP with to save your spot for this world premiere on Tuesday, September 10 at the High Line: https://bit.ly/nycwisdomfb

08/30/2024

Don't worry, New York—your secrets will always be safe with us. 🤫

This month, we welcomed Chang YuChen to the High Line for her performance of "Tree Hole (your secret is safe with me)." During the performance, she performed as a ‘tree hole’ adjacent to Old Tree on the Spur. Visitors were invited to share their secrets with her. Like a tree, Yuchen remained mostly silent, offering responses such as eye contact or advice only upon request. Driven by curiosity and care, Yuchen’s performance challenged traditional ideas around artistic categorization, exploring the intersections between language and nature, value and commerce, and teaching and community

The performance was inspired by the medieval Irish folktale “The Emperor’s Donkey Ears,” in which a barber learns his emperor secretly has the ears of a donkey. The emperor threatens the barber that if the secret is leaked, he will have him beheaded. The barber, unable to bear the weight of knowing this secret alone, whispers it into the hole or hollow of a tree. Versions of this tale and the plant varies, but the theme of emotional release and companionship with nature remain.

Thank you to all the New Yorkers and visitors who joined us for the day and confided in Chang Yuchen. ✨

📸 : Liz Devine

08/28/2024

The High Line's 18th Street Billboard—whose original incarnation was decommissioned almost ten years ago—is relaunching once again as a platform for art in September 2024 with a timely new work by Glenn Ligon.

Ligon’s "Untitled (America/Me)" will be the first artwork to grace the newly reconstructed billboard adjacent to the High Line at 18th Street near 10th Avenue. On view from September 3 through November 2024, Ligon’s presentation inaugurates this new iteration of an iconic billboard that once stood in this same location at the gateway to the gallery district.

“It’s a giant canvas for artists to present large scale works visible both from the High Line and from the street level," shared High Line Art director and chief curator, Cecilia Alemani. "The cutting message of 'Untitled (America/Me)' finds renewed resonance in the current political moment.”

Read the full piece in ArtNews to learn more about the return of the 18th Street Billboard and plan your trip to see Glenn Ligon's "Untitled (America/Me)" on the High Line soon: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/high-line-art-relaunches-its-18th-street-billboard-commission-with-a-glenn-ligon-work-1234715839/

08/20/2024

For the High Line, Teresa Solar-Abboud () presents “Birth of Islands,” a new sculpture in her series of zoomorphic shapes inspired by animals and prehistoric life forms. “Birth of Islands” is composed of slick, blade-like foam-coated resin elements that emanate outward from the pores of a muddy, gray ceramic stump.

When visiting New York, Solar-Abboud was struck by the landscape—building after building rising from the soil in a fight for prominence, just as vegetation in the forest combats for sunlight in order to survive. “Birth of Islands” refers to this competitive ecosystem, while also evoking human anatomy: two yellow, tongue-like emanations have seemingly tunneled their way from underground onto the High Line. The forms are spoon-like in their appearance, concave or convex, depending on one’s vantage point. The result appears simultaneously post-human and primordial, sophisticated and elementary—a representation of our own unending transformation alongside nature’s ever-evolving state.

📍: On the High Line at 20th Street

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08/20/2024

For the High Line, Teresa Solar-Abboud presents "Birth of Islands," a new sculpture in her series of zoomorphic shapes inspired by animals and prehistoric life forms. "Birth of Islands" is composed of slick, blade-like foam-coated resin elements that emanate outward from the pores of a muddy, gray ceramic stump.

When visiting New York, Solar-Abboud was struck by the landscape—building after building rising from the soil in a fight for prominence, just as vegetation in the forest combats for sunlight in order to survive. "Birth of Islands" refers to this competitive ecosystem, while also evoking human anatomy: two yellow, tongue-like emanations have seemingly tunneled their way from underground onto the High Line. The forms are spoon-like in their appearance, concave or convex, depending on one’s vantage point. The result appears simultaneously post-human and primordial, sophisticated and elementary—a representation of our own unending transformation alongside nature’s ever-evolving state.

📍: On the High Line at 20th Street
📸: Photos by Liz Devine

08/19/2024

Our 12 shortlisted High Line Plinth proposals will remain on view on the High Line at 30th Street until September 4. ✨As folks prepare for our Plinth commission—Iván Argote's "Dinosaur"—to arrive on the High Line this fall, our visitors will have an opportunity to review and share directly with us what they want to see on the Spur in 2026 and 2027 after Dinosaur leaves the nest.

Hailing from five continents, the 12 shortlisted artists bring a range of perspectives, with proposals that touch on geology and archaeology, abstraction, historical narratives, monumentality, spirituality, and the natural world. Two out of the 12 shortlisted proposals will be selected as the fifth and sixth High Line Plinth commissions, to be installed in 2026 and 2027 for eighteen months respectively.

💬 What do you want to see on the Spur? Share your thoughts on our 12 shortlisted Plinth commissions: thehighline.org/plinth-shortlist-feedback-2024/

📷: Timothy Schenck and Liz Ligon

08/13/2024

08/13/2024

Giulia Cenci—the artist behind "secondary forest," on the High Line at 24th St.—recently offered artnet and its readers a deeper dive into her artwork, how the structure and history of the High Line inspired its creation, and an inside look at her studio in Tuscany.

Of her inspiration and the way her artwork has integrated into the park, Cenci said, "The High Line is a beautiful work itself; I immediately loved the way nature has been growing and devouring a manmade infrastructure. Placed on several levels, the structures let the actual nature of the High Line grow and mix with an aluminum entity presenting vegetal, animal, and human prototypes melting and growing underneath, creating a new weird entity or landscape."

Read the full piece in Artnet and plan your next trip to the High Line to see "secondary forest": news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-artist-giulia-cencis-spectral-forms-2520326

Gifts from people like you — whose donations fund almost 100% of the programming and maintenance of the park — help bring extraordinary artworks like "secondary forest" to the High Line. You can visit https://www.thehighline.org/donate to make a donation or join as a member today.

08/07/2024

Along the High Line's wildest expanse, the Western Rail Yards, we are proud to present Oliver Lee Jackson's A Journey—a series of five massive new steel sculptures.

As we celebrate the High Line's 15th year, this stretch of the park, which runs between 30th and 34th Streets and west of 11th Avenue, offers visitors a glimpse of what the High Line was like before it was transformed into the public treasure it is today: a self-seeded landscape with sprawling views of the Hudson River and iconic views into the city's center. Installed in June, Oliver Lee Jackson's expressive works—with their abstract forms and vivid colors—complement and contrast with the untamed landscape and simple path of this section of the park, creating a new way to experience this space.

Stop by to see the exhibition and you'll see why we're fighting to and the unique magic of the Western Rail Yards. Learn more about the artwork and our Protect the High Line campaign: protect.thehighline.org/

📸 : Timothy Schenck

08/02/2024

Got a secret? We can keep it—we swear. 🤫

Join us on Saturday, August 17, for "Tree Hole (your secret is safe with me)," a performance-based public program by Chang Yuchen in dialogue with Pamela Rosenkranz’s Plinth commission, "Old Tree," 2023. Inspired by the medieval Irish folktale, "The Emperor's Donkey Ears," Yuchen will perform as a ‘tree hole,’ inviting visitors to share their secrets, which she promises to keep safe. Like a tree, Yuchen will be mostly silent, offering responses such as eye contact or advice only upon request.

📆 August 17 | 3 – 6pm
📍 On the High Line at the Spur on 30th Street and 10th Avenue
🎟️ FREE | No RSVP required

To learn more about Chang Yuchen and this program, visit the link in our profile. Save the date and your secrets for this August!

08/01/2024

Now on the High Line – Moynihan Connector Billboard: American Vignettes by María Magdalena Campos-Pons. 🌓

For the High Line, Campos-Pons presents American Vignettes, a two-sided billboard featuring paintings that have been pieced together and arranged into a grid-like presentation. She refers to American Vignettes as a sort of visual diary of daily life and survival in the city, “removed from the immediacy of quick snapshots.”

Campos-Pons invites viewers to engage with her reflections on the tensions and continued rhythm between humans and nature at a massive scale, transforming the deeply personal into a meditation that resonates beyond the confines of specific cultural or geographical spaces. We encourage you to take in this spectacular work and its universal relevance, and we hope you enjoy exploring this piece's cross cultural and cross generational themes.🌇 🌿

📍: On Dyer Avenue between 30th and 31st Streets
🌇: thehighline.org/art/projects/campos-pons/