You don't need to rush to see Sophie Calle’s installation, Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn’s historic cemetery of the same name—it will be on view for the next 25 years—but it's the perfect place to go if you have something to get off your chest now. (It might warrant multiple visits throughout its run). The monumental marble obelisk, which is at home among the tombstones, has a slot into which you can slip pieces of paper with your deepest secrets. The slips will eventually be burned by Calle in a bonfire several years from now. After you have lightened your burdens, enjoy exploring the beautiful landmark cemetery and its historic tombs. The residents will not mind if you bring a picnic.
The New York-based artist Nari Ward’s solo exhibition (G.O.A.T., Again, until 4 September) is at the waterfront Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens, with beautiful views of the Manhattan skyline. The show, which includes six new works made for the site, takes its name from the acronym for Greatest of All Time and also uses imagery of goats throughout. It is a bizarre and playful assortment of sculptures, some inspired by lawn ornaments, that nevertheless alludes to issues such as race politics. Works include a giant copper bell that looks like a billy goat’s testicles, cast concrete goats piled with things like fire hoses and even a 40 ft. long hobbyhorse—or, rather, hobbygoat—lying on the lawn.
There is no place like a garden for seeing the master glass artist Dale Chihuly’s work, and it certainly comes alive in his solo exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden (until 29 October). Around 20 monumental, brightly coloured works have been placed throughout the garden’s conservatory and grounds and the organic forms are most stunning when illuminated in the evening. Massive works like White Tower with Fiori (2017), a tall sculpture made with Chihuly’s trademark tentacle-like forms, command attention. But subtler pieces that blend into the flora, such as reed-like works placed among plants in the Conservatory are just as spectacular.
