This is the perfect segue/ convergence: As Armory Show Art Week winds down in New York and we have sprung forward with daylight savings today, it’s just the right time to experience the combination of art and horticulture at the Philadelphia Flower Show. The PFS is the oldest in the world, started 185 years ago in 1829. This year they are celebrating artists from Michelangelo to Monet, Picasso to Pollock, and da Vinci to Dali as an unprecedented collaboration of Flower Show designers and the nation’s great art museums has turned the Pennsylvania Convention Center into a 10-acre floral theme-park. The entrance of the exhibit is inspired by the work of Alexander Calder, a native of Philadelphia, and will feature a performance from remarkable aerial dance troupe Bandaloop (below) on and within the multi-dimensional display. The 2014 Flower Show is partnering with more than a dozen of the world’s greatest museums including the Getty, the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian, and the Barnes Foundation, for this colorful experience. They don’t try to recreate the artwork so much as they are inspired by the work and then reinterpret it with flora and fauna. For tickets and more info, go to Visit Philly.
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