{"id":5660,"date":"2016-09-03T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2016-09-03T18:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T22:15:30","slug":"matt-johnson-in-wanderlust-on-the-high-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/03\/matt-johnson-in-wanderlust-on-the-high-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Johnson in &#8216;Wanderlust&#8217; on the High Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Johnson\u2019s \u2018Untitled (Swan)\u2019 marries industrial materials to the natural world by shaping a train track into the shape of an abstract swan set in the High Line\u2019s lush gardens. Known for morphing everyday items \u2013 a crumpled Starbucks cup carved from wood and painted, a stack of plastic party cups actually rendered in painted bronze &#8211; into objects of wonder, this twisted rail pays homage to the former rail line on which it\u2019s installed. (In \u2018Wanderlust\u2019 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/art.thehighline.org\/project\/wanderlust\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Line<\/a> through March 2017).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5661\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/matt_johnson-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Johnson, Untitled (Swan), bent train track, 120 x 138 x 34 \u00be inches, 2016.\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/matt_johnson-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/matt_johnson-1200x934.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Johnson, Untitled (Swan), bent train track, 120 x 138 x 34 \u00be inches, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Johnson\u2019s \u2018Untitled (Swan)\u2019 marries industrial materials to the natural world by shaping a train track into the shape of an abstract swan set in the High Line\u2019s lush gardens. Known for morphing everyday items \u2013 a crumpled Starbucks cup carved from wood and painted, a stack of plastic party cups actually rendered in painted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/03\/matt-johnson-in-wanderlust-on-the-high-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matt Johnson in &#8216;Wanderlust&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4,3],"tags":[436,8,147,18,117,571,6291,432,198,435,6290,12,199,1205,2823,10,6289,6288],"class_list":["post-5660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","category-inside-view","tag-303-gallery","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-district","tag-gallery-tour","tag-high-line","tag-matt-johnson","tag-meatpacking","tag-new-york","tag-public-art","tag-railroad","tag-sculptor","tag-sculpture","tag-swan","tag-track"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1ti","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660","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=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}