{"id":832295,"date":"2026-07-29T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832295\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:59:10","slug":"a-precious-garden-grows-at-moma-ps1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832295\/","title":{"rendered":"A Precious Garden Grows at MoMA PS1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/feature\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Precious Okoyomon\u2019s new work transforms the concrete corner of the museum courtyard into a place of joy, exploration, and, dare I say, tranquility.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/hrag\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hrag-vartanian.jpg\" alt=\"Hrag Vartanian\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSC02924.jpg\" alt=\"A Precious Garden Grows at MoMA PS1\"\/><br \/>\n            Precious Okoyomon in front of &#8220;The Pleasure Principle&#8221; (2026) at MoMA PS1 (all photos Hrag Vartanian\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n<p>In the famously barren courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, a garden for the next two years has been planted. Created by artist and poet Precious Okoyomon, the elaborate installation invites us to approach a giant teddy bear\u2019s butt and slide through its core to exit through the mouth, like a tongue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rectum isn\u2019t a grave, it\u2019s just a portal,\u201d the artist told me during the press event that took place during an overcast Wednesday sprinkled with drizzle. Their statement riffs on Leo Bersani\u2019s 1987 seminal queer theory <a href=\"https:\/\/web.english.upenn.edu\/~cavitch\/pdf-library\/Bersani_Rectum.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a> \u201cIs the Rectum a Grave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Create a free account, or sign in to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of Hyperallergic get access to a limited number of free articles every month, and the Hyperallergic Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feature Precious Okoyomon\u2019s new work transforms the concrete corner of the museum courtyard into a place of joy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-832295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}