Nassau art museum honors Old Westbury family with new center

“The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden” is the inaugural exhibition for the Manes Center. A traveling photographic exhibition organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation, the exhibition chronicles the careers and influence of Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden, who revolutionized landscape architecture with the creation of a type of garden characterized by large swaths of grasses and fields of perennials.

The exhibition features 52 contemporary and newly commissioned photographs of important residential, civic and commercial projects.