Culture For The Non-Cultured

(OK, so I read about this back in September of last year – my how time flies — but I loved it so much, I have to tell you guys about it now.)

In the midst of the galleries of Chelsea, on West 24th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, an artist named Scot Kaplan built the tiniest, most whimsical park ever.

Kaplan took a 3 x 3 patch of grass, put a little fence around it, and called it Artists’ Park.  

He had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for it, where people ate refreshments and, according to the article in the Post, took “the world’s shortest strolls in the park - one at a time.”

Kaplan placed a plaque on the park’s fence.  The plaque read ”For those who struggle and achieve success, and for those who work in anonymity, this one square yard of green space is a place to put your feet in the grass as a respite from the surrounding tumult.”

Such a simple idea, but, oh, the beauty and humor of it!

(Below is a picture of Artists’ Park, lifted from the article in the New York Post.  Here is Scott Kaplan’s cool youtube page.)