Dustin Yellin is profiled in the New York Times this week, focusing on the artist’s close ties among the expansive New York arts scene, and his work founding the Pioneer Works exhibition space in Red Hook.  “Dustin does amazing things for the community,” says Red Hook resident and friend Billy Durney. “The amount of charity he does would set a record.” (more…)

Starting its campaign to create a “neighborhood of art” around its Houston campus, the Menil Collection has hired landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh to redesign and expand the environment around its 6 buildings.    “It’s always a challenge to take a landscape that has evolved incrementally and a landscape that has a subtle and modest character and to somehow succeed in improving it,” Mr. Van Valkenburgh says. “It’s not something that needs to be reinvented.” (more…)