{"id":1897,"date":"2025-07-16T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:41:27","slug":"a-fifteen-foot-tall-pigeon-in-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/a-fifteen-foot-tall-pigeon-in-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"A fifteen foot tall pigeon in Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

As one walks from Penn Station over to Chelsea to go to art galleries, this big pigeon is almost like a greeter welcoming you to the neighborhood. It’s a sculpture specifically commissioned for the High Line, and it’s titled “Dinosaur,” 2024, by the Colombian artist Iv\u00e1n Argote, measuring 15 3\/4 x 8 3\/4 x 17 1\/3 feet.<\/p>\n

I was curious why the artist would title a pigeon sculpture “Dinosaur,” and his explanation from the High Line website<\/a> is as follows: “The name Dinosaur<\/em> makes reference to the sculpture’s scale and to the pigeon’s ancestors who millions of years ago dominated the globe, as we humans do today. The name also serves as a reference to the dinosaur’s extinction. Like them, one day we won’t be around anymore, but perhaps a remnant of humanity will live on – as pigeons do – in the dark corners and gaps of future worlds.”<\/p>\n

Here’s another picture of the pigeon sculpture as seen from the front, including a young girl looking up at it, to provide a human scale to help you see how big it really is.<\/p>\n

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Iv\u00e1n Argote, “Dinosaur,” a pigeon sculpture on the High Line in Chelsea, NYC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’d like to learn more about the artist, check out his website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As one walks from Penn Station over to Chelsea to go to art galleries, this big pigeon is almost like a greeter welcoming you to the neighborhood. It’s a sculpture specifically commissioned for the High Line, and it’s titled “Dinosaur,” 2024, by the Colombian artist Iv\u00e1n Argote, measuring 15 3\/4 x 8 3\/4 x 17 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[399,551,597,733],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-sculpture","tag-ivan-argote","tag-nyc","tag-pigeon","tag-the-high-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}