A public art collaboration between the Whitney Museum and the Highline will debut work by Alex Katz on the façade of 95 Horatio Street, just south of the elevated park. The work, titled Katherine and Elizabeth, will remain on view for 8 to 12 months. (more…)
Carol Bove, Monel (2013), via Daniel Creahan for Art Observed
There’s a certain intangible spiritualism to the work of Carol Bove, located somewhere between the phenomenological minimalism of Donald Judd, and a more abstract, natural focus on the intersections of urban and rural ecologies. Divine symbolism intersects with locational meditations, found objects with architectural forms, and rigid industrial materials with looping, whimsical forms. Fitting then, that the artist would present a pair of shows, both including seven new works, one at the Museum of Modern Art, and one at The Highline Railyards, where construction is currently underway to convert the last untrammeled part of the elevated railway into park space. Both created specially for their respective spaces of exhibition, the pair of exhibitions currently on view feel like two parts of a potent whole.
Carol Bove, Equinox (Installation View), via Museum of Modern Art (more…)
Sean Kelly, who just inaugurated his new space at 10th avenue and 36th Street, posits that galleries may migrate north from Chelsea as the Hudson Yards development is completed. The neighborhood formerly known as Hell’s Kitchen, from 28th to 43rd Street and west of Eighth Avenue will have access to the No. 7 subway in 2014, as well as the the High Line extension and new residential investment. Rents are less expensive than in Chelsea and offer large warehouse-style exhibition spaces. (more…)
‪‬Jeff Koons in talks with Robert Hammond and Joshua David of Friends of the Highline regarding possible ‘Train’ sculpture installation above the Highline park in New York, to feature a “full-size replica of a 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive” suspended via crane, the project estimated at at least $25 million by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art which is also interested in the work [AO Newslink]
