Brazilian landscape designer Burle Marx married the formal innovations of European modernism with the bursting palette of plants native to Brazil.
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Now Open at New York Botanical Garden, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx
Immerse yourself in lush gardens, vibrant art, and the sights and sounds of Brazil. On view through September 29, 2019.
Four Art-Filled Holiday Events in New York City
Artists are embracing the holiday spirit, from a train show to a Kwanzaa festival.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Visions of Hawai’i Blossom in the Bronx
The New York Botanical Garden has planted a “Hawai’ian Paradise Garden” as part of an exhibition chronicling O’Keeffe’s 1939 trip to Hawai’i to make art for a pineapple company’s advertising campaign.
Bergdorf Goodman’s Holiday Windows Celebrate NYC Cultural Institutions
The 2017 Bergdorf Goodman holiday windows celebrate the American Museum of Natural History, New-York Historical Society, New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and other local cultural institutions.
Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.
Rediscover a 19th-Century Compendium of North American Trees
Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A new book compiles over 270 plates from their original publication.
Why a Herbarium of 7.8 Million Plants Is One of New York’s Most Valuable Resources
The New York Botanical Garden is home to the world’s second-largest herbarium, a vital archive in an era of vanishing botanical collections.
Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist’s Garden
As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.
A Corpse Flower Is About to Bloom in the Bronx, Unleashing Its Sensational Stench
Something rotten is preparing to bloom in the Bronx: one of the world’s largest flowers that smells like death.
A Set Designer on Recreating Frida Kahlo’s Home
“That’s the home she grew up in with her family, and that’s the home she returned to at the end of her life. It was a wonderful oasis of all things Mexican: color, nature, food. There’s a vitality about the space.”
Planting Frida Kahlo’s Botanical Paradise in the Bronx
Plants and flowers appeared throughout Frida Kahlo’s paintings, and although interpreting her art regularly evokes her biography of illness, injury, pain, and tumultuous love, the first exhibition to examine her work from a botanical perspective opens this week at a garden.