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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 is far from revolutionary. One need only bark back to the artist and environmental activist Joseph ...
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 thereâs 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. âI knew I wanted to create something that would be intimately related to the park itself, the trees, and the state of the ear...
Brendan McDermid/Reuters A "ghost forest" in New York's 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 City's Madison Square Park right now, surrounded by cement skyscrapers. The public art installation, titled "Ghost Forest," by artist, designer, and architect Maya Lin opened Monday and is a visible warning of ...
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...