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Jul 31, 2024 | curbed.com | Carl Swanson |Magazine's editor-at-large

The pigeon has landed. Or, it will soon. Right now it’s being hatched in Mexico. This fall, a 16-foot-tall pigeon — its chest puffed out proudly, head high, not down pecking at some distaff pizza crust, its pitiless red-eye gaze looking out over the traffic — will alight on the spur of the High Line that bridges Tenth Avenue at 29th Street. The pigeon’s name, or at least the title of the work, is Dinosaur. “I hope it doesn’t cause any accidents,” says Iván Argote, the artist who created it.