{"id":209505,"date":"2026-04-25T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209505\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:20:14","slug":"the-high-line-trades-feathers-for-stone-with-latest-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209505\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Line Trades Feathers for Stone with Latest Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the High Line follow Dinosaur, aka \u201cThe Pigeon\u201d? With a 27-foot, 36-ton sandstone Buddha whose hands are made from melted-down artillery shells.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-buddha-high-line-08604.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140906\"\/>A 27-foot stone Buddha by Vietnamese artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has take the place of Dinosaur on the High Line. Photo: David Gray<\/p>\n<p>The Light That Shines Through the Universe is the work of Vietnamese artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The sculpture is an homage to the Bamiyan Buddhas, a pair of 6th-century statues in Afghanistan destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/david-gray\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"David Gray\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cropped-David-Gray-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Gray is a New York street photographer. He\u2019s not the drop-in, grab-a-frame type: Gray works by walking Manhattan \u2014 often five to 10 miles a day \u2014 letting the city reveal itself in small, unscripted moments. That long-haul approach helped fuel his sold-out book &#8220;Wait For It&#8221;, a love letter to New York built around light, shadow and sharp timing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/david-gray\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by David Gray\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the High Line follow Dinosaur, aka \u201cThe Pigeon\u201d? With a 27-foot, 36-ton sandstone Buddha whose hands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[83055,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-209505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-highline","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}