{"id":5663,"date":"2016-09-04T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2016-09-03T18:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T22:20:56","slug":"nari-ward-on-the-high-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/nari-ward-on-the-high-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Nari Ward on the High Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart cars snag great parking spaces in New York; this one, created by Harlem-based artist Nari Ward, enjoys a privileged place on the High Line where an admiring audience regularly surrounds it. Inspired by an abandoned car that hosted a lime tree in his father\u2019s yard in Jamaica, Ward planted an apple tree in this car, lining the exterior with rubber tire treads and turning a symbol of nimble urban driving into a stationary support for nature. (On the <a href=\"http:\/\/art.thehighline.org\/project\/nariward\/\">High Line<\/a> through March 2017).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5665\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5665\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nari_ward-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nari Ward, Smart Tree, Smart car, cinder blocks, tire treads, soil, apple tree, 106 x 61 x 120 inches, 2016.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nari_ward-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nari_ward-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nari Ward, Smart Tree, Smart car, cinder blocks, tire treads, soil, apple tree, 106 x 61 x 120 inches, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart cars snag great parking spaces in New York; this one, created by Harlem-based artist Nari Ward, enjoys a privileged place on the High Line where an admiring audience regularly surrounds it. Inspired by an abandoned car that hosted a lime tree in his father\u2019s yard in Jamaica, Ward planted an apple tree in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/nari-ward-on-the-high-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nari Ward 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],"tags":[6295,8,147,18,4450,117,571,9,432,2829,198,6293,82,6292,12,199,2740,2823,10,6294,1520,16],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-apple-tree","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-car","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-contemporary","tag-gallery-tour","tag-harlem","tag-high-line","tag-jamaica","tag-lehmann-maupin","tag-nari-ward","tag-new-york","tag-public-art","tag-rubber","tag-sculptor","tag-sculpture","tag-smart-car","tag-tires","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}