In the bedroom community of New Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson’s landmark Glass House disappears and then rises from fog.
Atop this wooded promontory where Johnson often retreated from 1949 until his death in 2005, Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya choreographed 600 water nozzles for “Veil,” a hide-and-reveal sequence that once each hour envelops the transparent house.
In the words of Glass House director Henry Urbach, Nakaya’s art installation transforms “a timeless icon into something ephemeral.”
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