The ‘Fascinating Landscapes’ of May WAG
byThis month we expand our annual flora and gardens issue to consider the landscapes of “Fascinating Botanicals.” Few have been more intriguing than the…
Fascinating Botanicals
This month we expand our annual flora and gardens issue to consider the landscapes of “Fascinating Botanicals.” Few have been more intriguing than the…
The varied peony has become a protean metaphor, including for healing after violence.
David Hosack, MD, America’s first botanist and friend to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, has been a footnote in the nation’s history (though he does get a shout-out in “Hamilton.”) Victoria Johnson is looking to change that with her National Book Award finalist “American Eden.”
The New York Botanical Garden celebrates the protean creativity of landscaper/artist Roberto Burle Marx.
The “Hudson Rising” exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library in Manhattan examines two centuries along the river. From commerce to art to wildlife, varied elements combine to create a detailed exploration that encompasses ecological change and environmental activism.
Beatrice Farrand – the first woman landscape architect, who helped shaped the U.S. landscape at the 20th century’s dawn – is celebrated in a new documentary.
After World War I, Georgia’s Moina Michael started the tradition of wearing poppies to honor the dead and serve the living.
Ever try to put on an art show at a national historic landmark? No easy task. Just ask Susan Gilgore and Gail Ingis at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk.
Bill Ruhrkraut – a man who likes a good garden – takes over as GM at Bloomingdale’s White Plains.
Amy Ray of Indigo Girls cultivates her music – and her garden.
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” – which runs through May 19 – has nothing on the Plantagenets, the Rolls-Royce of English royal families.
In Jackie Battenfield’s world, it’s always springtime. The Brooklyn-based artist – represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Larchmont – has developed a unique process of painting leaves, branches and blooms on Mylar to stunning effect.
The annual Lyndhurst Flower Show arrived just as the Gothic Revival Mansion kicks off a long landscaping project.
Ann Mara Cacase continues the formidable philanthropy of her mother, Ann T. Mara – matriarch of the New York Football Giants and the First Lady of Football.
Two new books take readers into the garden, accompanied by two experts, Australian celebrity florist Fleur McHarg and Hamptons-based landscape designer Frederico Azevedo.
The services and benefits of a community nature center go well beyond the delightful aspect of providing a floral form of “eye candy” for visitors. In the case of New Canaan Nature Center (NCNC), the traditional mission is further expanded by educational opportunities for all ages through events and programming.
Touring Gilbertie’s Organic Petite Edibles and Herb Gardens in Easton with legendary wholesale grower Sal Gilbertie.
In “LandEscape: New Visions of the Landscape from the Early 20th and 21st Centuries,” at the Katonah Museum of Art through June 16, viewers can immerse themselves in works from two seminal moments in art history when painters reimagined an ancient art form that has helped define our identity as a nation.
When it comes to nature, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan is all in.
At Tiffany & Co., everything old is new again as the luxe silver and jewelry emporium’s signature tag shape-shifts in an urban garden for its new Return to Tiffany Love Bugs Collection.