The bridge made of tightly bundled bamboo poles gave slightly as we stepped onto it to cross a 30-foot “ravine” of terrazzo, feeling a little off-balance but as giddy as kids heading into a Robinson ...

Artists Mike (L) and Doug Starn during installation of Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú "Minotaur Horn Head" from the 2012 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rome. We're getting our own wave of bamboo when ...

Editor's note: Susan J. Smith is writing a blog called Going Places. It will focus on destinations that Michiganders love. Recently I've run into a couple of people who have said they are traveling to ...

I recently visited Mike Doug's installation "Big Bambu" on the roof garden at the Metropolitan museum in New York. Last summer Mike Starn invited to view the sculpture's earlier incarnation at the ...

The roof at the Metropolitan Museum is that perfect union of creative process and capitalism. It has an unparalleled view of Central Park, a cocktail bar and rotating interactive art installations.

The Starns explain how their 2010 Big Bambu installation at the MET in New York became the seed for this new undertaking: “we are grafting a new Big Bambú and using 1,000 poles from the Met as stem ...

Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will not only be able to view a new bamboo sculpture perched on the roof, they can also climb the 50-foot-high structure. 27 April 2010 • 12:11am US artists ...