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# Speechless: The Commons at Botanic Gallery
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/speechless-speechless-the-commons-at-botanic-gallery/
- Published: 2012-03-26T19:13:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:47.000Z
- Description: Speechless is an evolving series that reviews, discusses and/or comments on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, Botanic, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

**Speechless* is an* [*evolving series*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/speechless/) *that reviews, discusses and/or comments on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals.. To guarantee that the sources are not lost, the information for each image is available when you roll-over it and/or when you click through. All images with no click throughs were taken by the author.*

![Entrance to Botanic during Beat Nite 7. (all photos by the author unless otherwise noted)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-01.jpg "Entrance to Botanic during Beat Nite 7. (all photos by the author unless otherwise noted)")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/dsc_01481.jpg "Inside Botanic Gallery")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-02.jpg "botanic-02")

[![Meret Oppenheim, "Object" (1936) in the Collection of the MoMA (image via aresonantvoice.wordpress.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-03-600.jpg "Meret Oppenheim, "Object" (1936) in the Collection of the MoMA (image via aresonantvoice.wordpress.com)")](http://aresonantvoice.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/the-museum-of-modern-art-moma-new-york-ny/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-04-600.jpg ""Inspired by Meret Oppenheim's Luncheon in Fur" (via anninbarrett.wordpress.com)")](http://anninbarrett.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/luncheon-in-hair/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-05-600.jpg "The Woolly Chair Prototype by Jason Miller (via inventorspot.com)")](http://inventorspot.com/articles/prototype%5Fchairs%5F26722?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-06.jpg "Falling Chair (via gg.tigweb.org/mmtairo)")](http://gg.tigweb.org/mmtairo/11502/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/ten-pound-island-600.jpg "Childe Hassam, "Ten Pound Island" (1896) (via www.wikipaintings.org) ")](http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/childe-hassam/ten-pound-island?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/boston-common-at-twilight-32415-600.jpg "Childe Hassam, “Boston Common at Twilight” (1885) (image from mfa.org)")](http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/boston-common-at-twilight-32415?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![Boston Commons Cemetery (via Wikipedia)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-09-600.jpg "botanic-09-600")](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boston%5FCommons%5FCemetery.JPG?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/mg_5165-600.jpg "Sacred Resting Place by Eric Torrie (via eat5hams.com)")](http://www.eat5hams.com/2009/03/sacred-resting-place.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/moss_graffiti_2.jpg "Moss Graffiti in Williamsburg (via www.zmescience.com)")](http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/moss-graffiti-a-eco-way-of-painting-street-art/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/botanic-13.jpg "Rosie Newman's "Moss Couch" (va s-s-a.org)")](http://www.s-s-a.org/2011/2011%5Fopen/folio26.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/tumblr_louktxtchm1qku3fu-600.jpg "Astroturf-covered house in Austria (via notcot.org)")](http://www.notcot.org/knstrct/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[The Commons](http://botanicgallery.blogspot.com/2012/03/commons-installations-by-brooklyn.html?ref=hyperallergic.com#comment-form)*, featuring artists Sarah Butler & Julie Tremblay and curated by Paul Nicholson, continues at Botanic Gallery (150 Wyckoff Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn) until April 1.*