With a Drone on the High Line, an Artist Re-emerges From Controversy Sam Durant reveals his first large-scale sculpture in the public sphere since the “Scaffold” controversy in Minneapolis. “Untitled (drone),” 2016-2021, a rendering of Sam Durant’s proposed drone sculpture for the High Line Plinth in Manhattan that will be installed atop a 25-foot-tall pole.Credit...Sam Durant and High Line Art April 14, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET In May, a sleek white fiberglass sculpture in the shape of a Predator drone will be installed atop a 25-foot-tall pole and rotate in the wind on the High Line at 30th Street in New York. With a wingspan of 48 feet — almost the actual size of the remote-controlled military aircraft but stripped of its cameras, weapons and landing gear — the kinetic artwork could appear as a modernist bird hovering in the sky, reminiscent of the biomorphic sculptures of Constantin Brancusi or Barbara Hepworth.