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Arts and Culture

Give Us Mom!!! Billboard By Nora Turato On The High Line

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give us mom billboard photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

The latest installation on the High Line Billboard delivers a message that feels both humorous and surprisingly heartfelt. Created by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato, Give Us Mom!!! debuted just before Mother’s Day in the High Line-adjacent park at 18th Street and 10th Avenue, offering a bold plea for comfort and care amid the chaos of city life.

The billboard is impossible to miss: bright yellow Comic Sans-style lettering spelling out “GIVE US MOM!!!” against a flat blue background. The simple phrase transforms the familiar figure of “mom” into a symbol of nurturing, protection, and emotional support in a world that often feels fast-paced, distracted, and overwhelming. Borrowing the visual language of advertising, Turato turns a public billboard into an unexpectedly tender call for connection.
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Lifestyle, Nature and Tourism

Pink Thing of The Day: Blooming Pink Azaleas

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purple azaleas with door photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

Every spring, the streets surrounding Gramercy Park Historic District seem to soften beneath waves of blooming trees and carefully tended townhouse gardens, but these dazzling Pink Azaleas on East 18th Street managed to completely steal the scene. Exploding in vivid fuchsia blossoms, the shrubs almost seem electrically bright against the stately brick facades and ironwork details of the Italianate-style rowhouses standing behind them.
The contrast is part of what makes the moment so memorable.
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New High Line Billboard: Katherine Bernhardt’s Spring Cleaning

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katherine bernhardt spring cleaning billboard photo by gail worley
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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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Pink Thing of The Day: Alex Da Corte’s Soft Power BillBoard

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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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Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi Mural By Kobra

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Kobra Gandhi and Mother Teresa Mural
Photos By Gail

I was walking downtown on the High Line when I just happened to notice this cool new mural, entitled Tolerance, from renowned Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra, done in his signature, harlequin-pattern, Technicolor style. Painted on the side of the Chelsea Square Market at the corner of 18th Street and Tenth Avenue, the three-story image features the profiles of Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi, facing each other in a tribute to their roles as two of the world’s greatest humanitarians.
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