Today is the third and last day of Japan Week in Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal. The primary highlight is a Zen garden, offered as a respite for busy New Yorkers. Delineated in the space by ...

Whenever there’s a chance for a moment of peace in this city, New Yorkers know to take it. This week, Grand Central is making your commute a little less stressful with a pop-up Japanese zen garden in ...

Mark Kane, the garden editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, was here last month, trying to tell us the truth about Japanese gardening. His lecture at the Mechanics' Institute Library, sponsored ...

Can You Find Zen In This 3-D Geometric Puzzle? An artist known for his large street installations takes it indoors, where he plants some dystopia in his Zen Garden ...

We know the sound of one Zen garden in Japan. But what is the sound of two Zen gardens, one in Japan, one in Vermont? Wind whispers among trees. Water splashes over stones. All is the same. Which is ...