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In Maya Lins Ghost Forest, the trees are talking back “Maya Lin: Ghost Forest,” in New York’s Madison Square Park, June 23, 2021. The installation in the heart of the park is the artist’s memorial to another war — the one against nature. Madeline Cass/The New York Times. by Holland Cotter (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- On a sultry summer day the trees across the street from my Bronx apartment are deep in conversation. Trees are, science tells us, social beings and do some of the same things we huma...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   COLLEGEVILLE, PA .- Two new exhibitions at the Berman Museum explore relationships between humans and the natural world. Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project unites, for the first time, two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to a changing climate at a crucial moment of environmental precariousness. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity, or wind speed data into stitch and color,...

The extent to which restaurants seem essential in any city is a measure of its failure to provide citizens with good places to assemble. That failure, in Manhattan’s case, may explain some of the peak-pandemic reverence for restaurants. But restaurants also show us the way. The best impact on the urban landscape of the long disruption has been the so-called streetery, with which—in a rare instance of civic wisdom—restaurants were able to encroach onto parking spaces. From the elaborate dio...

Superflux has set up hundreds of trees damaged by forest fires around an oasis of living plants for an installation called Invocation for Hope in Vienna.

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Carnegie Hall today announced the lineup for the summer 2021 season of Carnegie Hall Citywide, the Hall’s free concert series that brings live music to all five boroughs of New York City. The series continues the Hall’s 45-year tradition of bringing free concerts throughout New York City’s neighborhoods.

Tree art is putting down roots Tree art is putting down roots Arboreal art is having a moment. We explore how artists are installing trees in public spaces as odes to social change. Branching out of barking fad? Klaus Littmann, Arena for a Tree, 2021. Photography: Gerhard Maurer It may sound far fetched, but we have it under good authority that art is starting to grow on trees. They line our parks, maintain our industries and sustain our existence. And trees’ role in public installation art...

Public parks have become a gathering place for society since the pandemic started as a place to safely meet friends with social distancing, and what better place for public art? If there’s any way to reach a wider audience, its art in a park. Now, visitors of Madison Square Park in New York City will see one public art called Ghost Forest by Colorado-based artist Maya Lin. Launching May 10, it recreates a skeletal forest of trees destroyed by climate change. “I knew I wanted to creat...

Brendan McDermid/Reuters A "ghost forest" in New Yorks Madison Square Park is a haunting reminder of the climate crisis. The art installation by architect Maya Lin is made up of 49 dead Atlantic white cedar trees.  Visitors walking through the trees can hear recordings of endangered and extinct native animals. There are 49 dead trees standing in New York Citys Madison Square Park right now, surrounded by cement skyscrapers. The public art installation, titled "Gho...

In Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. The spectral forest, a new installation by the artist and architect Maya Lin, looms like a jarring holdout from winter – barren, save for smattering of lichen on each trunk, a stark contrast to the verdant six-acre park’s late-spring growth and the...