{"id":13249,"date":"2026-08-26T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13249"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:00:17","slug":"derek-fordjour-archetype-1-seduction-on-the-high-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/26\/derek-fordjour-archetype-1-seduction-on-the-high-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Fordjour, &#8216;Archetype 1: Seduction&#8217; on the High Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petzel.com\/artists\/derek-fordjour\">Derek Fordjour<\/a>\u2019s modestly sized bronze sculptures of a waiter, a boxer and a burlesque dancer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehighline.org\/art\/projects\/derek-fordjour-archetype\/?utm_source=highline&amp;utm_medium=art-homepage&amp;utm_content=art&amp;utm_campaign=art\">High Line<\/a> are incongruous with the dense plantings and milling visitors surrounding each, and their presence in the intimate, building-enclosed space of the park above 26<sup>th<\/sup> Street is surprising and intriguing.\u00a0 Fordjour\u2019s aim is to shift our perspective on their professional roles, inviting us to consider each is a performer in their own way, using their talents to get ahead. (On view on the High Line on Manhattan\u2019s west side through April 2027).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4065px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/98fb21a7-6530-58c5-62c6-559e2f0875c0.jpg\" alt=\"A bronze sculpture of a woman in a headless and bikini stands on a pedestal on an elevated walkway over a street.\" width=\"4065\" height=\"5465\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Fordjour, Archetype 1: Seduction, bronze, paint, concrete, 82 x 15 x 22 inches, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Fordjour\u2019s modestly sized bronze sculptures of a waiter, a boxer and a burlesque dancer on the High Line are incongruous with the dense plantings and milling visitors surrounding each, and their presence in the intimate, building-enclosed space of the park above 26th Street is surprising and intriguing.\u00a0 Fordjour\u2019s aim is to shift our perspective &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/26\/derek-fordjour-archetype-1-seduction-on-the-high-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Derek Fordjour, &#8216;Archetype 1: Seduction&#8217; on the High Line&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[11853,8,1245,117,9123,198,199,10,11854],"class_list":["post-13249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-archetype","tag-art","tag-bronze","tag-chelsea","tag-derek-fordjour","tag-high-line","tag-public-art","tag-sculpture","tag-seduction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3rH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13250,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions\/13250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}