Friends of the High Line, the BID that runs NYC's most popular park, just published a book. It features my 2010
arrests on the High Line. According to former Parks Commissioner Benepe, I was the first artist to set up there. A lawsuit filed about those arrests led to it being legal for artists to sell on the High Line. -Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
Friends of the High Line, the BID that runs NYC's most popular park, just published a book. It features my 2010
arrests on the High Line. According to former Parks Commissioner Benepe, I was the first artist to set up there. A lawsuit filed about those arrests led to it being legal for artists to sell on the High Line. -Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
Friends of the High Line, the BID that runs NYC's most popular park, just published a book. It features my 2010
arrests on the High Line. According to former Parks Commissioner Benepe, I was the first artist to set up there. A lawsuit filed about those arrests led to it being legal for artists to sell on the High Line. -Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
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oeThe park's narrow borders have created a charged space
where activists can openly challenge the restricted use
of public space. Since 1993, Robert Lederman, founder
of A.R.T.1.S.T. Artists’ Response to Illegal State Tactics)
has protested the city’s practice of banning art vendors
on sidewalks. Following his 2009 arrest on the High
Line, Lederman sued the city, arguing that the park's
policy on artist-vendors, which restricts their operations
to less trafficked areas, violates the First Amendment.
Im summer 2013, members of the Outdoor Co-ed
Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society gathered
at the Sunken Overlook for their monthly seminude
meeting. In full view of the park and the street below,
the group's topless meeting combined performance
and activism, taking a stand for the right of New
Yorkers of all genders to bare their chests in public, »»