Doug and Mike Starn at the Met

Everyone check this out....especially Brit Brennen!

Big Bamboo, 2010.

This is the new roof installation at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This piece was originally created in 2008 then was reconstructed this August on the roof of the Met. The Starn brothers are identical twins who are best known for the pioneering photography that they began to produce in the 1980's. They actually had professional rock climbers to help them construct this forest of 5,000 bamboo poles.

"Stately and symmetrical, the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens into rigorously ordered spaces that guide viewers systematically along a rectilinear path." (Sculpture Magazine)

Here is the Met's press release on the roof installation.

Here is the Starn's brothers website.

There's also a GREAT article reviewing the artists and the installation in the new Sculpture magazine. I'll bring it to class on Friday if anyone's interested.

The exhibition is up until the end of October.