Art in the Parks

This series of eight stainless steel medallions honors Bloomingdale neighborhood residents who have shaped our world, including John Coltrane, musician; Elizabeth Acevedo, poet; Mario Bauza, musician; Constance Baker Motley, judge; Jose Feliciano, musician; Isamu Noguchi, artist; Abbey Lincoln, vocalist; Billy Strayhorn, composer. Over the course of a year, the exhibition will rotate between three neighborhood parks: Booker T. Washington Playground (July 15, 2023 to November 9, 2023), Happy Warrior Playground (November 10, 2023 to March 14, 2024), and Frederick Douglass Playground (March 15, 2024 to July 11, 2024).

This exhibition is presented by El Taller Latino Americano and the Columbus Amsterdam BID.

Designed by Project Backboard, this basketball court mural includes an abstract depiction of shooting stars.

This exhibition is presented by Project Backboard.

After collecting and reviewing 56 proposals from 49 international artists nominated by an international advisory committee, High Line Art has shortlisted 12 proposals for further consideration for the fifth and sixth High Line Plinth commissions. The selected proposals will be on view as sculptural maquettes on the High Line for visitors to view and send feedback on what they would like to see realized.

This exhibition is presented by The High Line.

This mural was painted by Publicolor, a youth development program that fights poverty by aggressively addressing the alarming dropout rate and low levels of educational attainment and youth employment in New York City. The program engages high-risk, low-income students, ages 12-24, in a multi-year continuum of design-based programs to encourage academic achievement, college preparation, job readiness, and community service.

Andrew Kuo is a NYC-based artist known for his data-informed abstractions. Covering one full and two half basketball courts, this mural is a flattened rendering of bodega flowers that the artist photographed at Rivington and Orchard Streets. The dots scattered across the mural are locations on the court that create a very loose idea of a “map” of the Lower East Side.

This exhibition is presented by Project Backboard.

This mural reimagines CITYarts’ Alice on the Wall mural, originally painted at this site in 2002. While the images are new, the new mural retains the theme of Alice in Wonderland on an adventure through the sights and sounds of New York City. The mural was designed and painted by students from Stuyvesant High School’s StuyCanvas program.

This exhibition is presented by the CITYarts.

This lenticular print alternately displays two photographs of 157th Street and Broadway, one archival and one contemporary. Pedestrians activate the alternating effect as they walk by, causing the image to flip between centuries. The archival image from 1909 is used with permission from the Museum of the City of New York. The contemporary image is a photograph taken by Adrian Sas in 2023.

To create Painful Arc II (Shoulder-High), Khan interviewed High Line staff members and photographed the numerous shipping boxes of supplies that circulate within the complex ecosystem of the park. Khan’s inscriptions on the archway include packaging labels and handwritten notes jotted down by staff members onto incoming cardboard boxes. This reimagined public monument paints a portrait of the park and the people who maintain it every day, as well as the people far away who manufacture the goods shipped to our door. While historically archways have been inscribed with the names and symbols of nobles and leaders, this archway is a monument to the ecosystem of labor and people around the world who make the High Line possible.

This exhibition is presented by Friends of the High Line.