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Email is invalid Maya Lins Ghost Forest, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photo: Maya Lin Studio After a delay due to COVID-19 precautions, Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, a towering stand of forty-nine spectral cedar trees, is a powerful new public art work on view in New Yorks Madison Square Park, now through November 14, 2021. Killed by saltwater infiltration in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, the trees were "resurrected" by the artist in the city park, juxt...

With the opening of frieze Senior Editor Evan Moffitt Evan Moffitt On 10 May, you will unveil Ghost Forest in Madison Square Park in New York: a sculptural installation and monument to the world’s dying forests. How did you first become engaged with the issue of deforestation and how will the work approach the specific ecological concerns of New York?  Maya Lin My earth-based, site-specific outdoor works, such as the Storm King Wavefield [2007–08] or the earth line drawing I recent...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In a new commission from the artist and architect Maya Lin, the wide, flat lawns of Madison Square Park have been transformed into a forest of cedars, tall and stately. It’s an incredibly striking display—a dramatic disruption of the urban landscape that rather forcibly reminds one of what all this once was: dense and sprawling woodland where black bears, beavers, wolves, and other wildlife roamed. Yet these new trees ...

Julie Mehretu Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey—which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual in...

Maya Lins "Ghost Forest" Installation Brings Dead Trees From Pine Barrens To Madison Square Park arrow "Ghost Forest" in Madison Square Park Scott Lynch/Gothamist Designer and architect Maya Lin is getting ready to unveil a new art project in May called "Ghost Forest," a tree installation about the effects of climate change in Madison Square Park. The piece, which was originally planned for summer 2020, will now be open to the public from May 10th through November 14th, ...

MontanaPBS to host free, online Earth Week events for educators, parents and families From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — In celebration of Earth Week,

Exploring the ‘ghost forest’ that got run over by a glacier in Southeast Alaska Published February 20 Share on Facebook Print article As a few scientists hiked a path between the ice towers of a Southeast Alaska glacier and crashing ocean waves in 2016, they topped a ridge and saw massive tree trunks poking from gravel ahead. The dead, sheared-off rainforest stems pointed toward the ocean like skeletal fingers. In this “ghost forest,” not visible to fishermen or others passing by ...

New documentary ‘Ghost Forests’ premieres Feb. 18 on MontanaPBS From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — A new documentary about whitebark pine, “Ghost Forests,”

Maya Lin Jesse Frohman and courtesy of the artist An immersive installation that visualises the bleak effects of climate change by the US artist and environmental activist Maya Lin, which was slated to open in June last year, will open at Madison Square Park in New York this spring. The work was postponed in the “earliest weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, when there was extreme uncertainty” around possible restrictions on public gatherings, and “in consideration of ...

Originally scheduled to open in 2020 but ultimately postponed due to the escalating pandemic, Maya Lins site-responsive installation Ghost Forest will now be on view from May 10 through November 14, 2021.