Posted in Plants Elsewhere, Projects from others, tagged art, celeste ng, cleveland, installation, polka dots, trees, yayoi kusama on 23 July 2018| 1 Comment »
Yayoi Kusama’s artwork is joyous, full of polka dots and mirrored rooms. But I didn’t know she had anything to do with urban plants until writer Celeste Ng tweeted about seeing “these trees, dolled up in their polka-dot finest in honor of a Yayoi Kusama exhibit” at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Celeste Ng kindly gave us permission to share her photos on our humble blog. Thank you, Celeste! Readers, please check out her Twitter: @pronounced_ing and her latest novel, Little Fires Everywhere.
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged city, installation, miami, site specific, street art, tree on 6 December 2012| Leave a Comment »
For one day only, a very odd tree in Miami will become a pop-up art gallery and installation site for an event entitled Shade Tree. Tomorrow, December 6, artist Barron Sherer informed us via email, he and William Keddell will be showing a site-specific work about this large tree which has grown right through and around a chain link fence. (more…)
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged exhibition, Hamburg, installation, urban plants, video, weeds on 11 May 2012| Leave a Comment »
Artist duo Iris-a-Maz invite us all to their new video installation, Ultra Plants, opening tonight, May 11, in Hamburg. As fellow artistic investigators of urban plants who have contributed insights and images to Urban Plant Research in the past, Iris-a-Maz have now turned their attention to so-called weeds.
Posted in Berlin plants, Brooklyn plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged artists, Brooklyn, exhibition, installation, New York, Open Source Gallery, residency on 19 August 2009| 2 Comments »
Urban Plant Research’s first New York exhibition and residency began last Saturday at Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn! It kicked off with an opening party filled with friends, neighbors, fellow artists and plant lovers, pizza and beer.
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Projects from others, tagged California, installation, park, plastic bag, redwood city, sculpture, train station, tumbleweed, weeds, wild west on 22 June 2009| 8 Comments »
Today’s photo comes courtesy of reader and sister Phoebe, who writes from California: “In a town covered in pavement, aka Redwood City, the origins of this 4 foot wide tumbleweed is a mystery.” (more…)
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Projects from others, tagged installation, manhattan, public art, subway, tree on 15 December 2008| Leave a Comment »
There will be trees in the subway in Lower Manhattan, reported the New York Times today. Artists (and twin brothers) Mike and Doug Starn are completing an installation in the New South Ferry Terminal, which is being built below the existing South Ferry Terminal. (more…)
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