The Miraculous
The Miraculous: New York
46. (West 22nd Street)
By Raphael RubinsteinIn 1982, an artist initiates the ambitious project of planting 7,000 oak trees next to an equal number of roughly-hewn basalt stone columns throughout a German city that had been heavily bombed during the Second World War.
The Miraculous: New York
47. (Madison Square Park)
By Raphael RubinsteinAn artist transports several dozen dead or dying Atlantic white cedar trees from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey to Madison Square Park in Manhattan.
The Miraculous: New York
48. (Houston Street and LaGuardia Place)
By Raphael RubinsteinAn artist convinces the City of New York to permanently set aside a 200-by-45-foot parcel of land on the southern edge of Greenwich Village so that he can re-create the habitat of Manhattan Island as it was before the first European colonialists arrived.
The Miraculous: New York
49. (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
By Raphael RubinsteinWhen a global pandemic breaks out and international travel is curtailed, a Japanese artist who lives part of the year in New York finds herself unable to make a planned return to her native land.
The Miraculous: New York
50. (Central Park)
By Raphael RubinsteinInspired by his discovery of tantric mandalas and believing that Western traditions put too much faith in subjectivity and the creative unconscious, an artist turns to mathematics and systems. For one of his best-known series he begins with photographs he has taken of trees in Central Park.
