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Run as fast as you can to the New York Botanical Garden to see CHIHULY, a visionarty glass maker and artist who has filled the garden with masterpieces. His works are fantasy sculptures, adapted from natural and organic forms and echoing the fantastic flowers and fauna at the garden. At some point it is hard to tell which is which. For instance, the "Blue Herons", look like blue flamingos from a distance, sitting in the lily pond pool, surrounded by "Wala Walas"-glass onions that float on the pond. The "Palm Dome Tower" , a tower, 30 feet high, is made up of hundreds of thin, curlicued glass jutting out, almost "alive" from its central core and armature, afloat on the pond. CHIHULY has created a new art/plant in a new "garden of Eden" --as though we arrived on another planet and are witnesses to an "alien" species He has taken the traditional formula of sand, soda, lime, and ash, stemming from EGyptian glass, and has created an explosion of shape and color,yellow,blue and some with slivery and gold and copper refractions.

CHIHULY combines the "high" art of Venetian glass with influences of Tiffany,
Picasso and Andy Warhol. He is international and creates beauty throughout the entire world, a true visionary who exemplifies a respect and partnership of glass and nature, intertwined with whimsical, joyful, and surreal immagination.
Bring your children, and your whole family. It is the best art show in New York.
posted by Demetria at 10:21 AM