The High Line vs MoMa

Do you remember the New York deserted rail line that got turned into an elevated park come walkway last summer? Well, pioneering curator Lauren Ross has attracted 2 million people to walk the High Line which runs through NYC's meat-packing district. And that's just since June. By the end of this year, visitor numbers could feasibly be larger than MoMA's.

Increasingly, it's the work of contemporary emerging and mid-career artists that are winning over the public. Ross commissions work directly from the artist, "The important thing is that we are working with a unique space - it's not a museum or gallery, it's not even like any other park...The pieces have to respond in some way to the uniqueness".

Found via the www.theartnewspaper.com