A hand-painted mural by the iconic Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha (Hollywood Is a Verb, Another Hollywood Bubble Popped) is coming to the side of a building next to the High Line at West 22nd Street and Tenth Avenue, on May 6th, for a year.
Above is the Gagosian’s official rendering of what it might look like overlooking Chelsea’s elevated-train-tracks-turned-public-park — a frothy pink reiteration of his Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic Today pastel, Ruscha’s first public commission in New York.
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“It has an intimate quality and is a piece you can experience by just walking by it,” director of High Line Art Cecilia Alemani told the New York Times about the future Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic Today mural. It will be lit at night.
The High Line’s previous text-based public artworks included a neurotic, ambiguous Allen Rupppersberg and a great, glum David Shrigley on their West 18th Street billboard.
