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Tag: Metropolitan Museum

  • Thursday, August 22, 2:00 pm Eastern – Sleeping Beauty at the Met Museum, Online

    In May, the Met Gala marked the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Costume Institute exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. In this 2 pm August 22 Garden Conservancy webinar, Dominic Leong, the founding partner of Leong Leong, the architectural firm behind the exhibition design, will present the exhibition design concept and process. The exhibition reawakens the Costume Institute’s archive through the senses and is united through the theme of nature. With a series of multi-sensory activations, the exhibition draws on the concepts of a garden and a scientific laboratory as two contrasting environments that shape our relationship to nature.

    Leong Leong’s projects are situated at the intersection of art and living to build regenerative worlds. For this program, Dominic will also discuss notable projects including the Anita May Rosenstein LGBTQ Campus, Hancock Park House, and Hawai’i Nonlinear. These projects will demonstrate the firm’s approach to an expanded concept of the garden and their commitment to designing for regenerative ecosystems.

    $5 for members of the Garden Conservancy
    $15 for General Admission

    A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants a few days after the event. We encourage you to register, even if you cannot attend the live webinar. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/education/education-events/virtual-talk-sleeping-beauties-at-the-met-museum

  • May 9 – May 16, 2011 – Gardens of New York City, the Hudson River Valley, & the Hamptons

    Join Pacific Horticulture Board member Greg Graves on a fabulous trip visiting riverside estates in New York, May 9 – 16, 2011. In New York City, see the Metropolitan Museum’s exquisite Cloister Garden, innovative community and pocket gardens, exciting new developments along the harbor, and attend a theater evening. Enjoy private guided visits to Wave Hill’s 28 acres of exuberant plantings overlooking the Hudson River, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Vanderbilt Mansion with spectacular views of Newport Harbor, Rockefeller’s lovely Kykuit Estate, and attend a special luncheon at the Culinary Institute. We have coveted invitations to private gardens designed by Richard Hartlage, and two artists’ gardens in the Hamptons; Madoo, Robert Dash’s ever-changing masterpiece, subject of his book, and Jack Larsen’s Longhouse Reserve, housing great sculpture and ethnic art.

    For more information please contact:
    Sterling Tours – New York
    (619) 299-3010
    http://sterlingtoursltd.com/NewYork2011.html