July 20, 2021
![Arc de Triomphe in Paris is wrapped in tribute the envirnmental artist Christo.](https://i0.wp.com/www.urbangardensweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/christo-arc-de-triomphe-wrapped.png?resize=614%2C410&ssl=1)
This article was updated on September 16, 2021 to include the image (above) of the nearly completed installation.
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In a posthumous tribute to the environmental artist Christo who died in 2020, approximately 150 workers began wrapping the Arc de Triomphe … Read More...
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February 16, 2021
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For Mardi Gras in New Orleans last year, I donned a pair of gold lamé pants, a feathered hat encrusted with shiny sequins and a colorful mask (not the kind we’re all wearing these days), then joined my neighbors and … Read More...
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June 28, 2020
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This puts the culture in horticulture: After a three month shutdown, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened with an audience of 2,292 plants.
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During the theater’s Concierto Para el Bioceno (Concert for the Biocene), those planted in their … Read More...
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June 26, 2020
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The novel Cornavirus has inspired some novel ideas. From personal glass greenhouses at an Amsterdam restaurant, stuffed pandas occupying chairs in a Bangkok eatery, to pool noodle hats at a cafe in Germany, people are exercising their collective creativity to … Read More...
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May 8, 2020
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As the world braces itself for the reopening’s new normal and wonders what that will look like, a waterside Amsterdam restaurant will be serving guests candlelit plant-based meals in the safety of individual glass greenhouses.
To maintain minimal physical contact … Read More...
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