When it comes to this summer's surf-tastic exhibit over at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, we almost didn't become the next chapter in the continuing story of Big Bambú. Artist brothers Mike Starn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS – In last summer’s seven-furlong Test Stakes here, Big Bambu almost pulled off a shocker at 28-1, running on the lead through gut-wrenching splits (:21.4, :44, 1:09.1) before ...

Summer on the Metropolitan Museum’s roof has typically meant circling a pedestal or two before moving on to cocktails and the view. But with “Big Bambú,” a walk-in/walk-on, site-specific, thoroughly ...

Rome’s latest monument, the Big Bambu – a 33m-high structure that resembles a bird’s nest – is both an art exhibition and a place to recline and hide away. Over the past two months, about 30 rock ...