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

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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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Andi LaVine Arnovitz: What We Bring

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Andi LaVine Arnovitz (b. 1959) transformed her wedding dress, handmade by her grandmother, into the sculpture What We Bring (2023). Thousands of laser-cut women’s names – all 2,611 entries found on the Jewish women’s archive website at the time of making – fill the space that the artist’s body once occupied and spill out to form a teeming train.

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Love is All Around: Yoni Alter’s Love Continuum in Union Square

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Just in time for peak summer vibes, Union Square has a new landmark that’s equal parts art and affirmation. Love Continuum (2024), a bold and brilliant public sculpture by London-based artist Yoni Alter, is currently turning heads — and perspectives — on University Place between 13th and 14th Streets.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Ed Ruscha, Wen Out For Cigrets

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The phrase immortalized on this canvases, Wen Out For Cigrets (1985), refers to an American cultural trope in which a father leaves the house to buy cigarettes and never returns, abandoning his family.

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Made You Look By Banksy

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Paying attention all the time is an interesting way to go through the day. When you’re a tourist, however — in my case, traveling in London —  it pays off, because you can spot all the hidden weird things that residents never notice.
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