Collect Pond Park in Lower Manhattan was reintroduced to nature May 27th. Through the Public Art Fund, Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith designed a 15 ft. across, ten-sided structure that holds a flowering meadow. Whitewall spoke to Wayland-Smith about her interest in reincorporating nature to a built environment.
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“Glass Stress,” an exhibition that celebrates the use of glass in contemporary art, opens this week as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale. We spoke with organizer Adriano Berengo on a recent trip to New York about his pitch to contemporary artists and why glass has been negatively associated with craft and function.
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Tomorrow, June 2, "Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting" sponsored by Vacheron Constantin, will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The partnership between the Barbier-Mueller Museum and Vacheron Constantin resulted in an exhibition and a limited edition series of watches entitled, Métiers d’Art: “Les Masques.”
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