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New High Line Billboard: Katherine Bernhardt’s Spring Cleaning

katherine bernhardt spring cleaning billboard photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

Katherine Bernhardt is known for paintings that merge commercial motifs and imagery from everyday life with loose, expressive mark-making. Her canvases stage dense scenes of pop culture, featuring cartoon characters, brand logos, and household objects — Garfield, the Pink Panther, E.T., Crocs, the Nike swoosh, and cigarettes. Rather than treating these images as symbols to decode, Bernhardt approaches iconography as material to play with, reframe, and exhaust.
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New High Line Billboard: Allison Katz, Don’t Ask

allison katz dont ask billboard photo by gail worley
Photo By Gail

Spotted at 10th Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets: a giant billboard featuring two chickens (well, one hen and one rooster, to be specific) casually crossing the road — but don’t expect a punchline. This clever and surreal artwork, titled Don’t ASK by artist Allison Katz, is part of the High Line’s rotating public art series. With its deadpan humor and painterly style, the piece turns the classic joke setup into an open-ended moment of reflection. Why are they crossing? Katz leaves it up to the viewer — and maybe that’s the whole point. This installation will be up only  through August 2025.

Pink Thing of The Day: Alex Da Corte’s Soft Power BillBoard

soft power billboard by alex da corte photo by gail worley
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If you happened to strolled along the High Line sometime between March 11th and May 31st, you may have noticed something striking floating above 10th Avenue at 18th Street: a familiar, fuchsia feline lounging with purpose.  Soft Power was the latest billboard installation by acclaimed contemporary artist Alex Da Corte, and it turned heads for all the right reasons.

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Simone Leigh’s Brick House On The High Line

Brick House By Simone Leigh
All Photos By Gail

The first time I laid eyes on Simone Leigh’s monumental Brick House sculpture I was on the bus heading uptown on 10th Avenue.

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WERC Armadillo Mural in Hell’s Kitchen

 WERC Pantone Armadillo Mural
Photos By Gail

When Pantone teamed up with Instagram to promote their 2016 Color of the Year (which, in that year, was actually two colors: Rose Quartz and Serenity), they chose muralist WERC (@W3RC) to represent NYC with this depiction of a man wearing an Armadillo as a Helmet, or something like that. Read the full story behind this mural, and the global ad campaign of which it was a part, This Link.

WERC Mural Site View

Photographed at the Southwest Corner of 10th Avenue and 50th Street in Hell’s Kitchen NYC.

WERC Pantone Armadillo Mural