Plants

Spoiler Alert! What's Happening in The Happening?

Park Slope Tree Chopped, Neighbors Complain: RS Takes a Stand

Flora! Flora! Flora! It's Plants as Muse in a Big Group Show at a Manhattan Bank

It's Not Easy Being Green: Gardeners Show Their True Colors

Life's a Beach

Reality Mimics Fiction in Leo's Latest Drama

'The Color of Olives'

Reality Mimics Fiction in Leo's Latest Drama

The Examined Life

Reality Mimics Fiction in Leo's Latest Drama

Tails of the City

Photos by Sandra-Lee Phipps

Horoscope

Photos by Sandra-Lee Phipps

The Quinine Quest

Photos by Sandra-Lee Phipps

Art

Photos by Sandra-Lee Phipps

Fleur du Mal

Dumas's Black Tulip droops in Mark Giesser's new vase

Meanwhile in Palestine

Obscured by an election, Iraq, and Sudan, Gaza smolders

Pulp Friction

Dike Blair's hard-boiled glamour

Czech Dream

Dike Blair's hard-boiled glamour

Art and China's Revolution

Art and China's Revolution

Implant

Art and China's Revolution

'Sunday Best with Omar S'

Art and China's Revolution

Victorian Era Nonsense, With Recipes

​Next week, the University of Chicago Press will publish a facsimile of Edward Lear's Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, first published in 1889. Included among the illustrations of such unnatural flora as Enkoopia Chikabiddia and Smalltoothcombia Domestica is a brief section on "Nonsense Coo ... More >>

New York's Rotten Tree Menace Claims Another Victim in Central Park

​Didn't we warn you about the trees? In 2007 we saw them crush cars in Brooklyn. Last summer, after a series of arboreal assaults, a tree on NYC Transit property severely conked a woman in Queens -- and the hits just kept a-comin'. In September a tree smashed a windshield, injuring a driver. I ... More >>

Jaron Vesely

​Didn't we warn you about the trees? In 2007 we saw them crush cars in Brooklyn. Last summer, after a series of arboreal assaults, a tree on NYC Transit property severely conked a woman in Queens -- and the hits just kept a-comin'. In September a tree smashed a windshield, injuring a driver. I ... More >>

Pinky Winters & Richard Rodney Bennett

​Didn't we warn you about the trees? In 2007 we saw them crush cars in Brooklyn. Last summer, after a series of arboreal assaults, a tree on NYC Transit property severely conked a woman in Queens -- and the hits just kept a-comin'. In September a tree smashed a windshield, injuring a driver. I ... More >>

The Provincetown Playhouse Meets the Ontological in The Verge

​Didn't we warn you about the trees? In 2007 we saw them crush cars in Brooklyn. Last summer, after a series of arboreal assaults, a tree on NYC Transit property severely conked a woman in Queens -- and the hits just kept a-comin'. In September a tree smashed a windshield, injuring a driver. I ... More >>

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Study Finds Local Native Plants Face Extinction

Bittersweet at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens​A 20-year study of plant life in a fifty mile radius of New York City by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens has found that more than 50 plant species native to the region face extinction under pressure from decreasing undeveloped land and the spread of non ... More >>

Arbouretum+Pontiak

Bittersweet at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens​A 20-year study of plant life in a fifty mile radius of New York City by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens has found that more than 50 plant species native to the region face extinction under pressure from decreasing undeveloped land and the spread of non ... More >>

READY, SET, EAT!

Joey Chestnut aims for hot dog glory

The Whitney Looks Back at Painter Charles Burchfield

Curious visions from an early American modernist

Film

Curious visions from an early American modernist

GET MOVIN'

Start the weekend right

Northern Spy Food Co.'s Kale Salad

​ As the photo above suggests, the good folks at Northern Spy Food Co. are serious about their roughage. Order the restaurant's kale salad and you will indeed get kale, served in an abundant enough quantity to put the salutary benefits of wheatgrass juice to hot-cheeked shame. But it's to the ... More >>

Will Smith: Not Dead

He can hear you spreading those rumors, you know. ​Meanwhile, on the other side of the fake stories about celebrity mortality spectrum, Will Smith has been killed by the Internet--specifically by a story from FakeAWish.com that claimed the former Fresh Prince had fallen to his death from a cli ... More >>

Madonna Apologizes To Hydrangeas!

Remember last week, when Madonna dissed a hydrangea bouquet that was given to her, muttering (after the giver had walked away) that she absolutely loathes that particular form of flora? Well, she's turned apologetic about the whole thing--and she's being funny and clever about it too.

Fall Hudson River Cruise to Bear Mountain

Remember last week, when Madonna dissed a hydrangea bouquet that was given to her, muttering (after the giver had walked away) that she absolutely loathes that particular form of flora? Well, she's turned apologetic about the whole thing--and she's being funny and clever about it too.

Best in Show: Lee Bontecou at Freedman Art

Plus: Sue de Beer at the High Line; Eija-Liisa Ahtila at Marian Goodman

THE GREAT INDOORS

Enjoy the pleasure of going outside (without going outside)

Botanica: Jim Findlay's Hothouse

3LD hosts a whole bunch of plants