Park update: The Interim Walkway at the Western Rail Yards (between 30th & 34th Streets) will be closed to the public on June 12 & 13.
To meet the demands of our busiest time of the year, we ask all friends of the High Line to help us raise a total of $30,000—$1,000 for each block of our 1.5-mile-long park along Manhattan’s West Side.
Wang Wei
Covered Plinth
Wang Wei (b. 1972, Beijing, China) lives and works in Beijing, China. Covered Plinth blankets the Spur and the Plinth with a tile mosaic inspired by the alligator tank at the Beijing Zoo. The work references the naturalistic murals often painted behind animal enclosures in zoos, and more widely, about the artificial simulations of nature humans introduce into their built environments.
Support
Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons, Jennifer Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller, J. Tomilson Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Donald R. Mullen, Jr., Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Doug Oliver, Mario J. Palumbo, Jr., Susan Scherr, Susan Viniar, and Anonymous.