When visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, don’t miss the rooftop garden of the museum building, which offers spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline thanks to the museums location at the edge of Central Park.

During my visit, the French conceptionalist Pierre Huyghes was on display. Having seen his 2012 installation at the Documenta in Kassel, including a free running dog, I was quite curious what would await me on top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The temporary site specific work didn’t include dogs but other, smaller living creatures floating in the water of a fish tank. As part of the work, Huyghes pried a number of the rooftops paving stones, setting them alongside the gaps formed. Water pumped into the paving ground encouraged plant growth to invade the ground.

Huyghes is not the first one to be on display on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Artists, such as Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons and Sol LeWitt have preceded him.