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Email is invalid Maya Lin's 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 York's 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, juxtaposed against lush greenspace and ringed by the urban setting. A related soundscape is available ...

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 recently installed at Princeton University [ The Princeton Line, 2018], are embedded in the earth and of a...

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 aren’t nearly as numerous or robust as their predecessors; in fact, they’re only barely ha...

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 information. Some of the most recent works on view also smartly deal with contemporary social issues, ...

Maya Lin's "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, 2021. According to a press release, Ghost Forest derives its name from the devastating natural phe...