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Spanish-born artist Teresa Solar-Abboud (b. 1985) creates sculptures, drawings, and videos characterized by an interest in fiction, storytelling, natural history, ecology, and anatomy. For her commission on the High Line, Solar-Abboud presents Birth of Islands (2024), a new sculpture in her series of zoomorphic shapes inspired by animals and prehistoric life forms.
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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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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.
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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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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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