THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Ted Loos
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| Kasseem Dean, a.k.a. Swizz Beatz (second from left), at his home in New Jersey with some of the artists whose work is in his collection (from left): Nina Chanel Abney, Kaws, Jordan Casteel and Cy Gavin. Above them is Kehinde Wiley’s “Femme Piquée par un Serpent” (2008). |
The landscape architect Thomas Woltz doesn’t usually work at home. But one day, he was sketching at the breakfast table in his West Village sanctuary when he had an “aha!” moment for his design of the Public Square and gardens of Hudson Yards, the enormous new development on the West Side of Manhattan.
“It was one of those desperate moments of asking, ‘What is the essence of this project?’” said Mr. Woltz, 51, nattily dressed, as usual, in a suit. He approaches art-collecting in the same thoughtful way. “I’m eclectic,” he said of his collecting. “I just follow my heart. I’m sure that my sensibilities are the result of some things that are innate but others that reflect my training.” [
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| A closer look at Ken Smith’s “Tonka Truck.” |
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| “Japanese Portrait With 3 Pink Lemons,” Gresham Sykes (1995). |
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| Top left, “Six Shooter” by Gresham Sykes (1990); lower left, “Santa Teresa, Venice” (1997) by Roger de Montebello and a 17th-century copy of a Roman bust of Marcus Aurelius. |
