Now, 130 years later, Bly’s work is being commemorated with the unveiling of The Girl Puzzle, a sculptural installation by artist Amanda Matthews of Prometheus Art. Her reporting for the New York World pulled back the curtain on the atrocities and abuse that patients endured there, and by 1887 her reportage became a book called Ten Days in a Mad-House. Journalist Nellie Bly made a name for herself when she went undercover posing as a patient at the women's asylum on Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island) in New York City. The view of the entrance to the "Girl Puzzle." This September, nearly 60 years later, Christo will finally bring their design to life by wrapping the 162-foot-tall, 150-foot wide structure in 269,000 square feet of silvery-blue recyclable polypropylene fabric and tying it up with 22,965 feet of red rope. Unfortunately, in 2009, Jeanne-Claude died and the project was scrapped-that is until now. ![]() Over the years, the renowned artists revisited the idea again and again, creating dozens of sketches of their larger-than-life project. In 1962, design duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude imagined a project of epic proportions: wrapping Paris’ famed Arc de Triomphe from top to bottom in fabric. Pencil, wax crayon, enamel paint, photograph by Wolfgang Volz, architectural and topographic survey, hand-drawn map on vellum and tape. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris) Place de l'Etoile – Charles de Gaulle Collage 2019. The show comes on the heels of her "One with the Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection" exhibition-a tribute to the artist's seven-decade career-that opens April 4 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Also on display: her popular Infinity Mirror Room. Opening May 9, “Kusama: Cosmic Nature” is a “multisensory presentation” that will include the debut of two new sculptures, Dancing Pumpkin (2020), a 16-foot-tall sculpture, and I Want to Fly the Universe (2020), a 13-foot-tall "biomorphic form with a yellow face and polka dots," as well as Flower Obsession (2020), an interactive piece where museumgoers can stick flowers on walls to create a collaborative masterpiece. So it should come as no surprise that the venue for her latest solo exhibition would be the New York Botanical Garden in New York City. Over the years the natural world would become a reoccurring theme in the now 90-year-old contemporary artist’s sculptures and paintings. Growing up, Yayoi Kusama lived on her family’s nursery and seed farm in Japan, where she roamed the open fields bursting with flowers and explored the property’s greenhouses. From Janet Echelman’s massive web-like weavings, which are large enough to cover entire buildings and city blocks, to the 60-year-in-the-making idea by the artist Christo and his now deceased collaborator Jeanne-Claude to shroud the Paris' iconic Arc de Triomphe in cloth, the outdoor sculpture scene for the year ahead proves that the sky is truly the limit. ![]() Both pieces explore the history of women in public and private life, and are part of an effort by the Smithsonian Institution and the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District to extend the Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative into the city’s streets.Īll of this excitement on our home turf has us anticipating a number of big, bold art installations beyond the Smithsonian. ![]() Starting this May, two public artworks- Monument by New York City-based artist Maren Hassinger and Marker by Washington, D.C.-based artist Rania Hassan-will be installed along D.C.’s Connecticut Avenue. All 14 installations are part of an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Gardens that explores a central theme: “protecting habitats protects life.”Īnd there’s more to come. Since May, bright, storybook-like houses and giant dragonflies, grasshoppers and nests have spread among the museum properties. That’s not the only outdoor art gracing the Smithsonian campus. ![]() On display through September 13, 2020, “ Lee Ufan: Open Dimensions” gives visitors the opportunity to experience sleek steel and stone artworks that blend seamlessly into the museum’s 4.3-acre site beside the National Mall. Last September, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum underwent a makeover of epic proportions when Korean artist Lee Ufan installed ten site-specific sculptures around the cylindrical building's exterior.
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