Katie Holten: Tree Museum October 3, 2009

Along the four-and-a-half-mile stretch of the Grand Concourse--the historic boulevard connecting Manhattan to the parks of the north Bronx--a most unusual "museum without walls" opened Sunday, June 21, 2009, and will remain on view 24 hours a day, seven days a week until Oct. 12. Katie Holten's new, temporary public artwork along the Grand Concourse celebrates its street trees and highlights the Concourse's influence on the changing neighborhood. By keying the location number into a cell phone, a sidewalk "museum-goer" will be able to access audio segments that overlay impressions of the past, present, and future to a walk along the Concourse. A selection of artifacts collected for this "Tree Museum" will be exhibited in Wave Hill's Sun Porch and in the Bronx Museum of Art's fall 2009 exhibition