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On Monday, October 18, the Rockefeller Foundation presented the 2010 Jane Jacobs Medals to Friends of the High Line Co-Founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the founding President of the Central Park Conservancy and current President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. The Foundation awards the Medals each year to recipients whose work "creates new ways of seeing and understanding New York City, challenges traditional assumptions, and creatively uses the urban environment to make New York City a place of hope and expectation."

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On Friday, October 22, 2010, Friends of the High Line will debut Francis Cape's The Other End of the Line, a major public art installation addressing the connections and differences between the cultures of upstate New York and New York City.

Inspired by the High Line's history transporting goods from upstate New York into New York City, Francis Cape will transport a previously-occupied residential trailer from Sullivan County, NY to Gansevoort Plaza under the High Line. The trailer's interior will serve as an exhibition space featuring artworks from the thriving upstate New York art community, selected by guest curator Ian Berry.

Participating artists include Michael Ashkin, Richard Garrison, DeWitt Godfrey, Kenji Fujita, Matt Harle, Chris Harvey, Margo Mensing, Rebecca Murtaugh, Michael Oatman, Gina Occhiogrosso, Ken Ragsdale, Nancy Shaver, and Alfonso Volo.

Join Friends of the High Line in celebrating the debut of The Other End of the Line at the opening reception, followed by public talk and discussion with the artist, on Friday, October 22 at 6:30 PM. Visit our Event Calendar to learn more.

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This High Line Art Commission is presented by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. High Line Art Commissions are made possible by Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Additional support for The Other End of the Line has been provided by The Greenwall Foundation. High Line Art is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.

Join Friends of the High Line on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 to celebrate the Jupiter Opposition, the day Earth passes between the Sun and Jupiter, making the distant planet clearly visible. The event coincides with Demetrius Oliver's Jupiter, a major public art commission combining original photography, music performances by The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and stargazing with the New York chapter of the Amateur Astronomers Association on the High Line.
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Image by Jody Lee Lipes.

On Friday, September 10, 2010, Friends of the High Line hosted a free, open-air screening on the High Line of “NY Export: Opus Jazz,” the film adaption of Jerome Robbins' groundbreaking 1958 "ballet in sneakers." Conceived by dancers from the New York City Ballet and shot on location in New York City, the film consists of five movements celebrating the energy and emotion of youth in New York City, including a duet, called "Passage for Two," which was shot at sunset on the High Line at the West Side Rail Yards. A question-and-answer session with the dancers and producers of the film followed the screening.