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Arts and Culture

Karon Davis Curtain Call on The High Line

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American artist Karon Davis (b. 1977) brings to life historical and allegorical figures in her signature white, wrapped plaster sculptures. Immersed in her parents’ worlds of theater and ballet as a child, Davis’ installations merge memory and scenes from the stage with historical events, mythology, and ongoing socio-political concerns. For her High Line, commission Davis created Curtain Call a larger-than-life bronze portrait of a ballerina taking her final bow after a performance.
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Lifestyle, Nature and Tourism

Pink Thing of The Day: Visions in Pink Chinese Astilbe

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Like many other plants favored by High Line garden designer Piet Oudolf, Visions in Pink Chinese  Astilbe provides visual interest throughout all four seasons. This year-round performer thrives in moist, shady habitats. Deeply divided green-bronze leaves in spring give way to two-foot-tall plumes of Deep Magenta Flowers in summer. As the flowers fade, the chronicle, skeletal structure remains through the winter, providing both off-season visual interest and important food source for birds.

Photographed on The High Line, This Plant is Visible at Little West 12th to 13th Streets and 17th to 18th Streets.

Arts and Culture

On Growth By Kipwani Kiwanga on The High Line

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Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978) is a conceptual artist working across film, performance, sculpture, and installation. Through exhaustive research into topics including colonial history, social segregation, and marginalized stories, Kiwanga constructs artworks that tease apart power imbalances and the imperceptible nuances that comprise the aesthetics of power.
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Celebrate Shark Week, 2024!

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Shark Week is The Bomb (Detail From Cosima Von Bonin’s What if They Bark? on The High Line. Photo By Gail)

Hey all of you Shark-Loving Bitches out there, guess what? That’s right, it’s Shark Week again! For big fans of Sharks, (like me) it’s one of the most highly-anticipated weeks of TV programming all year! Shark Week!
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Giulia Cenci’s Secondary Forest on the High Line

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Artist Giulia Cenci  (born 1988, Corona, Italy) creates elaborate installations that invite viewers to question their relationship with nature. Her work features animals, plants, and human appendages cast from melted-down scrap metal, reusing found objects, agricultural tools, old machinery, and car parts. These disparate elements are then hung, suspended, or pieced together, morphing into a wild habitat, void of hierarchy.
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