A public sculpture we can get behind. This majestic, sixteen-foot artwork is by the American artist Simone Leigh, whose intersectional practice explores “how the body, society, and architecture inform and reveal one another”. The inaugural commission for the new High Line Plinth in New York’s beloved elevated park, the bust stands tall above the city’s busy roads, depicting the head of a Black female on a skirt-meets-clay-house torso. Its form and title, Brick House, refer to “the term for a strong Black woman who stands with the strength, endurance, and integrity of a house made of bricks”, an accompanying text informs.
