The garden of good and evil
Gardens mirror nature’s caprice and our own. So it is no wonder that these oases of enchantment can also be places of crucible and cruelty, mystery and madness, decay and death.
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Exploring the garden
Finding permanence in the fleeting
In “The Rockefeller Family Gardens,” photographer Larry Lederman finds the permanent in ever-changing, intimate spaces.
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Flowering Fairfield; a county guide to public gardens
May 12 is National Public Gardens Day. To celebrate, we set out to provide the most comprehensive list of public garden offerings around Fairfield County.
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The garden of memory
The writer returns to a place that holds poignant recollections – the newly renovated and reopened Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo.
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Dynasties and dust: The Met’s new ‘Age of Empires’
WAG’s resident Sinologist, Audrey Ronning Topping, considers the ruthless magnificence of the Qin and Han Dynasties – and the fleeting nature of empire – in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit.
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The constant gardener
How does the garden of Patricia Caffray’s home grow? Beautifully with time, money, labor and a hands-on homeowner who oversees every bit of it.
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Following Wyeth, on her own path
A new exhibit at the Hudson River Museum explores the iconic American painter Andrew Wyeth’s and French photographer Joséphine Douet’s relationships to the land and each other.
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Planting stylish seeds
Putnam & Mason, a design atelier with a distinct point of view, is set to open its doors in Greenwich this month.
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Where the arts continue to bloom
Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack is a Hudson Valley institution celebrating its 70th anniversary as a place that continues to encourage the arts to… bloom.
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Dressing, a natural act
How the beauty and complexity of the natural world have inspired fashion designers for centuries is the focus of “Force of Nature,” opening this month at the Museum at FIT.
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Secret gardens of sex
Eve – and, by extension, the garden – is a metaphor for female sexuality, particularly unbridled female sexuality, and man’s attempt to control it.
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Eternally in bloom
“Flora: The Art of Jewelry” takes readers from the 17th century through modern day with designs both classic and daring.
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An Indian artist for our time
In the quietude of The Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ South and Southeast Asia Galleries lies an exhibit for the garden of the soul. “An Artist of Her Time: Y.G. Srimati and the Indian Style” (through June 5) is, in curator John Guy’s own words, “a modest show.”
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The transit of Janis
Janis Siegel – the only original female member of The Manhattan Transfer – talks with WAG’s Gregg Shapiro prior to the longtime group’s 2017 tour and gig at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill.
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The hidden hazards of gardening
Avid gardeners are susceptible to many of the same types of injuries that afflict tennis and golf enthusiasts.
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Epic brings HIIT training to White Plains
The fitness studio challenges guests to strength-train using their own bodyweight.
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Let’s hear it for super foods from the garden
Add these five super foods from the garden to your diet to enhance your health and wellness.
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Bravo, ‘Bawa’
A tale of two brothers – and the rival gardens they established in Sri Lanka.
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A touch of the Hamptons on the Mamaroneck shore
Aussie couple Lori and Michael Gelhard are expert home renovators as their house in Mamaroneck’s Shore Acres attests.
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The best of humanity in the aftermath of tragedy
In a time of rising nationalism and anti-globalization, a new Broadway musical looks at a Canadian town’s kindness to the world after 9/11.
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