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The Writing on the Wall
A collaboration between Hank Willis Thomas and criminal justice scholar Dr. Baz Dreisinger, this immersive installation showcases essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams, and notes written by individuals in prison around the world.
CURRENTLY ON VIEW
The High Line is the only park in New York City with a dedicated multimedia contemporary art program, which we offer to audiences, rain or shine, 365 days a year—all for free. We present works by national and international artists at varying stages of their careers, from emerging voices to those long established. Led by Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator, High Line Art invites artists to engage with the unique architecture, history, and design of the High Line in creative and provocative ways. Through art, we foster a productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape.
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Commissions
Commissions
We work with world-renowned artists to commission temporary, site-specific sculptures, installations, and murals that are visible from the High Line and the surrounding neighborhood.
We work with world-renowned artists to commission temporary, site-specific sculptures, installations, and murals that are visible from the High Line and the surrounding neighborhood.
Performances
Performances
Artists create participatory, dynamic performances and transformative experiences that take advantage of the High Line’s setting.
Artists create participatory, dynamic performances and transformative experiences that take advantage of the High Line’s setting.
Art Dinner
Art Dinner
Proceeds from the annual High Line Art Dinner, featuring sunset cocktails and an intimate seated meal in the Chelsea Market Passage, help us sustain our public art program.
Proceeds from the annual High Line Art Dinner, featuring sunset cocktails and an intimate seated meal in the Chelsea Market Passage, help us sustain our public art program.
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Support
Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support for High Line Art is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, and Charina Endowment Fund. High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson.
Major support of the High Line Plinth comes from a dedicated group of contemporary art leaders and philanthropists. The High Line Plinth Committee supports the realization and success of major art commissions on the Plinth. The Committee includes Shelley Fox Aarons, Fairfax Dorn, Andrew Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller, J. Tomilson Hill, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Donald R. Mullen, Jr., Mario J. Palumbo, Jr, and Anonymous.
En Plein Air is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The High Line Network is made possible by the founding support of The JPB Foundation. Additional funding is provided by Amanda and Don Mullen.
Dorothy Iannone, I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door, is made possible, in part, by an in-kind donation from Morgenstern Capital and Canvas Property Group. Additional in-kind support is provided by Colossal Media.
Project support for Ruth Ewan, Silent Agitator, is provided by Colby and Alberto Mugrabi, with research funding provided by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Program support for The Writing on the Wall is provided by the Art for Justice Fund, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
