Joseph Beuys, 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) Installed posthumously New York City, New York (Photo Credit: Theresa Hackett)

In 1988, New York City’s Dia Center for the Arts, which owns a number of Beuys’ works, posthumously paired five columnar basalt stones (shipped from a quarry 30km outside Kassel), with trees (gingko, linden, Bradford pear, sycamore, and oak) in front of its building at 548 West 22nd Street. Beuys’ vision to extend 7000 Oaks beyond Kassel was further expanded in 1996, when Dia installed 32 more pairs along the entire length of 22nd Street.6

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