Fritz Haeg: Something for Everyone December 12, 2010

'Something for Everyone,' Fritz Haeg's exhibition at The Aldrich, includes five projects. One is an Edible Estate on the front lawn of the Museum that is being tended by the staff. For the artist, the ultimate goal of a garden like this is to activate the front lawn as a social space, where the gardeners interact with the passersby while creating new relationships with the environment and the plants and animals. Reconnecting people with people, and people with plants and animals, is at the core of all the projects in this exhibition. The Animal Estate at The Aldrich consists of a series of homes designed specifically for the flying squirrels that lost their habitat when the Museum's large ash tree died and was removed from the Sculpture Garden.