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Most of us think of the High Line as something of a weird, wonderful urban park. But Cecilia Alemani, the curator and director of High Line Art, hastens to correct us, because it is so much more: “The High Line is both a promenade and an observatory: a place removed only 30 feet from the hustle of Manhattan streets, yet with this small distance the park allows its visitors space for respite and reflection,” she said. On Friday morning, High Line Art announced its newest open-air exhibition "Panorama," an art installation meant to bring together “humankind and nature” and entice viewers to reflect on their relationship to the outdoors.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have paid tribute to World War One personnel at a Tower of London art installation featuring thousands of ceramic poppies. The Queen laid a wreath at the "Blood Swept Lands And Seas Of Red" exhibit, where each poppy commemorates a fallen WW1 serviceman. By 11 November - Armistice Day - there will be 888,246 ceramic poppies, one for each British and colonial death.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry visited in August. Hundreds of spectators lined the perimeter of the tower's moat during the royal visit.

Stage designer Tom Piper, who helped create the poppy installation, said the Queen described the artwork as "impressive."

First there was singing and dancing. And then the complaining began.

A storefront art installation in Anacostia that is part of 5x5, the city-wide public art festival, will be removed after community members complained that it looked like junk.

The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities said it will take down “The New Migration” by Abigail DeVille, a found-art project installed in a down-at-the-heels section of Good Hope Road SE.

The Hammer Museum thrilled four Los Angeles artists with the announcement Tuesday that they had won the 2014 Made in L.A. Mohn Awards.

The top prize -- the juried Mohn Award, which honors artistic excellence with $100,000 funded by philanthropists and art lovers Jarl and Pamela Mohn -- went to the Los Angeles Museum of Art, which is a micro-gallery and art installation created by Alice Könitz, 43.