Chihuly Night at NYBG
August 2017
A brief report of our “Chihuly Night”
at New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx with friends Marlene & Lydia. Dale
Chihuly “has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art.”
He’s installed major exhibitions from Boston and Seattle to Venice and
Jerusalem.
We’ve been to NYBG a number of times, including the Spring Orchid
Festivals and Fall Mum Festivals; see my "Gardens" post. 
And seen Chihuly glass there (2006) and at
the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2004). So we were very interested to
see promotions for “Chihuly Nights,” April to October on select nights
6:30-10:30. More than 20 installations,
many with multiple sculptures, thruout the gardens. Plus lighting at night.
This reminds us of our visit to a Chinese lantern festival in the Montreal
Botanical Garden (2010), when we enjoyed the colorful displays in both sunlight
and night lighting. In addition to the flowers and glasswork, there are
musicians in a few locations and panels of poetry about the sculptures written
by elementary school children. But 2 disappointments: the tram around the
gardens (a Marjorie favorite) isn’t running and the Children’s Adventure Garden
is closed when we get to it (no sculptures). 