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Southern California weather might not warrant an
outrageous celebration of the coming of spring, but
that hasn’t stopped the San Diego Museum of Art
from decorating its permanent collection—which
includes pieces by Matisse, Dalí, Magri e, Durand,
Cassa and O’Keeffe—with flowers every April
for the past 30 years. A fewweeks before the
museum’s Art Alive event, local florists are asked
to interpret selected paintings either literally or
figuratively, and one gets to create a two-story
floral sculpture to be installed in the rotunda. And
that’s not even the best part. “Oh my gosh,”
says museummarketing director Devon
Foster. “It smells
incredible
.”
april 12–15
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Petal Power
Plant life imitates art in San Diego