High Line Art announced today that it will present Re/trato, a 2003 video work by Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz. The video will be screened at High Line Channel 22, the park’s outdoor screening area at West 22nd Street. Read More
This weekend Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker will present “Codex Dynamic,” a series of video projections on the Manhattan Bridge this weekend as part of the Dumbo Arts Festival that promise to make the bridge a trippy wonderland of nonsense. Read More
Tatzu Nishi’s new installation in Columbus Circle is, by a wide margin, the most audacious public artwork that has appeared in New York City in years. Granted, competition for that title has not exactly been fierce, but that can’t be counted against the mid-career Japanese artist’s weird and beautiful work, which is presented by the Public Art Fund. Read More
Over at The New York Times website, ArtsBeat reports that a statue of Pope John Paul II in Rome that had been the subject of much debate has been reworked “to take into account the suggestions of a commission of art experts convened by Rome’s mayor.” Read More
This fall the High Line will screen a series of films by the Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, on loop as a series of projections at West 14th Street. Read More
The Brooklyn-based Virginia Overton will incorporate the Edison ParkFast near the High Line into a site-specific sculpture that, like some of her other works, involves a pick-up truck. Read More
The Friends of the High Line announced today that the artist Jennifer West will present a day-long performance on September 13 that involves a mile-long length of celluloid film. Visitors to the park will walk on the strip, or otherwise manipulate it, and Ms. West will turn the resulting material into a movie. Read More
The art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund took to The Huffington Post yesterday to decry plans to destroy Green Acres, a terraced landscape sculpture by Athena Tacha, outside the Department of Environmental Protection Agency in Trenton, New Jersey. Read More
