Brooklyn Navy Yard art project: Pigeon flock to illuminate NYC skyline
An acrobatic display by a flock of homing pigeons could give a whole new meaning to the words “performance art.”
About 2,000 homing pigeons will illuminate New York City’s night sky in a project by Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley.
The birds, each equipped with a remote-controlled leg band LED light, will be released at twilight from coops aboard a former aircraft carrier docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The flock will swoop, twirl and glide over the East River for 30 minutes every weekend between May 7 and June 12.