After NYC’s gray winters we always look forward to the blooming cherry blossom season to brighten up the city (and you can track where they’re blooming in Central Park specifically with this interactive map)! Though tomorrow, Wednesday, April 17th, we’ll catch sight of a cherry blossom display never seen before.
Tomorrow, the viral “Flower Flash” installation by floral designer Lewis Miller will pop up outside of the Brooklyn Museum for only one day.
Flower Flash will create a stunning display of the world-famous Japanese cherry blossoms on the steps of the Brooklyn Museum before opening hours (between 9:30 – 10:15 am).
Cherry blossoms are especially beloved in Brooklyn, with some of the most dazzling bright pink blooms in the trees just outside the museum’s entrance and throughout the neighboring Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
And this isn’t the first time Miller’s decadent florals have bloomed in NYC–many a times they’ve transformed urban street corners into bright and colorful gardens, popping up in unexpected places (like a trash can on the sidewalk or on an ice cream truck) though always only staying in place for a few hours.
Miller’s displays have also been a part of the Meatpacking District’s L.E.A.F. flower festival, in which one million flowers and over 20 NYC florists beautified the neighborhood.
Tomorrow’s Flower Flash arrangement lines up perfectly with the recent opening of the museum’s newest exhibition, Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami), which features brilliant illustrations of cherry blossoms in historic Tokyo.
Learn more about Lewis Miller’s Flower Flash here.