How the High Line Got Art Instead of Money to Take Out the Trash
- Donald Mullen honored for founding investment in park program
- Maurizio Cattelan designs ‘High Since 1934’ scarf for guests
Pedestrians walk along the High Line park in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The U.S. Conference Board is scheduled to release consumer confidence figures on July 30.
Photographer: Scott Eells/BloombergThe pitch was something about supporting garbage removal on the High Line. Instead, Donald Mullen said he’d pay for art and a curator.
More than eight years and 220-plus artists’ projects later, the Friends of the High Line thanked him (again) in the chicest way possible: with a balmy September evening on the High Line, cleared out for guests to enjoy all to themselves.