Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions – Art – Review – New York Times Annotated The wall labels in “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions” at the Metropolitan Museum, one of the first major Poussin shows since the 1994 Paris Grand Palais survey and the first ever to focus on landscapes, read like mash notes, with paintings [...]
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At the Met–A Review of the First Ever Poussin Show to Focus on Landscapes
February 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Art · Europe · Museums · New York NY
The Right Price Put Piet in Place in Battery Park
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments
The Wall Street Journal Online – Leisure & Arts Annotated Warrie Price is a tireless advocate for Battery Park and its 23 acres of historic waterfront land with stunning views of the Harbor and Statue of Liberty. Betsy Barlow, then president of the Central Park Conservancy, suggested that Warrie replicate the private-public partnership model so [...]
Tags: Landscape Inspiration · New York NY · Parks · Public Gardens
If It’s Not Lit You Don’t See It: Fireflies Illuminate Piet’s Battery Bosque
February 5th, 2008 · No Comments
TILLETT LIGHTING DESIGN INC. :: THE BATTERY BOSQUE The Battery Bosque New York, New York (In our 20′s, Linnea and I were in summer theater together.) Top Honor Award 2006, The Waterfront Center. Honor Award 2006, American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter Piet Oudolf, garden designer The Saratoga Associates, landscape [...]
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Coming to the High Line: Shall We Adopt Piet As Native?
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments
A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically – New York Times Annotated Multimedia Slide Show Artfully Planned Decay Piet Oudolf “The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.” For Mr. Oudolf, in fact, the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it [...]
Tags: Design philosophy · Europe · Naturalistic · New York NY · Public Gardens · The New York Times · Winter
Poussin Landscapes at the Met
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Special Exhibitions: Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions Annotated Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008 French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art. This will be the first exhibition to examine the landscapes of this great [...]
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