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High Line Network 
Joint Art Initiative New Monuments for New Cities
Five cities imagine new monuments for today

February – October 2019
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New York, NY (November 28, 2018) — Friends of the High Line announces New Monuments for New Cities, the inaugural project of the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, a new collaboration between industrial reuse projects in North America. New Monuments for New Cities is a public art exhibition that will travel across the United States and Canada throughout 2019. Five urban reuse projects, which are part of the High Line Network, invited five of their local artists or artist groups to create proposals (in the form of posters) for new monuments. Each participating location will produce an exhibition of the 25 artworks, specific to their site.

Participating sites include:
•    Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas; February – April, 2019
•    Waller Creek, Austin, Texas; March – May, 2019
•    The 606, Chicago, Illinois; May – July, 2019
•    The Bentway, Toronto, Ontario; May – August, 2019
•    The High Line, New York, New York; September – October, 2019

Participating artists include: Regina Agu, Nicole Awai, Judith Bernstein, Susan Blight, Daniela Cavazos Madrigal, Jamal Cyrus, Eric J. García, Guerrilla Girls, Coco Guzman, Hans Haacke, Tonika Johnson, Life of a Craphead, An Te Liu, Teruko Nimura and Rachel Alex Crist, Chris Pappan, Denise Prince, Phillip Pyle, II, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Richard Santiago (TIAGO), Xaviera Simmons, Sin Huellas artists: Delilah Montoya and Jimmy Castillo, Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff, Vincent Valdez, Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, and Quentin VerCetty.

“As memorials to the deeply imbalanced history of the Western world are being torn down, the current moment demands critical thought and creativity about the monuments that adorn our cities. These proposals from today's artists offer an inspiring range of vision for how we might eternalize this point in society’s progress,” says Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art.

New Monuments for New Cities ends its run on the High Line in the fall of 2019, coinciding with the annual convening of High Line Network. This fifth assembly of the High Line Network will be its first public symposium, to be held in New York City, and brings together experts, practitioners, and leaders from across North America working to expand the developing field of infrastructure reuse.
 
“New Monuments for New Cities is an exciting opportunity for different communities to share ideas about activating public space with art, taking insights specific to each location and finding common themes around monumentality and legacy that resonate on an international level,” says Ana C. Traverso-Krejcarek, Manager of the High Line Network. “The eclectic mix of proposals developed by the artists selected reflect the social and political hallmarks that make each city's heart beat.”