New High Line Develpmt & Art Installation

The High Line is under construction for an additional stretch along the Hudson.  Free tours are available of the site with Carol Bove's art installation, CATERPILLAR.  Tickets are free but advanced reservations are required.  The new construction will be compeleted in '14,.  Meanwhile, it is a work in progress amidst the self-seeded, native foliage thriving and decaying abandoned rail yards.  The view of the Hudson today was spectacular with a flurry of sailboats and a sweeping vantage of NYC & NJ across the river.  Bove, a Brooklyn based artist (b. Switzerland) has 7 modernist abstract sculptures of varying sizes and materials that reverberate the surrounding architecture.  "14" frames the views in all directions.  "Visible Things and Colors," resembles a building under construction rising from a concrete base.  "Celeste" & "Prudence" are curved powder coated steel whose tunnel like shapes register the the train cars parked in front of the the subway passages below.  Bove's installation will be on display through spring '14. Visit the site now while it is in transition and experience the metamorphosis in progress which possesses its own transformative beauty.