For the Art Newspaper, I reported on the restoration of Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush that has been hiding in plain sight in the East Village for over 50 years:

In a brief yet prolific career that ended with his death at age 35 in 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark responded to the neglect of New York City’s urban environment with radical interventions, most famously colossal cuts in abandoned buildings. Much of his work was meant to be ephemeral, and little of it survives, especially in the places it was created. An exception is a small, rusted steel cage outside St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village. For years it has stood unmarked and empty of the flowers it was intended to hold.

Read the full story here.