One of the more popular exhibitions, “Kotel-mART,” was an homage to the Wailing Wall complete with a box of messages participants could tie with wires or twine.

“We were trying to reference the Wailing Wall in Israel and we thought about New York City and people’s wishes,” said Christina Justiz of Ferravitreous Arts, who will be sending the scraps of paper to Jerusalem to be inserted into the real Wailing Wall.

A few of the themed collaborations caught my Artful Green eye: Allyson Parker’s The Kotel, ”(aka “The Western Wall”) will be reconstructed in Bushwick out of recycled fabrics. Paper and pens will be available for the public to write down their wishes and insert them into the “wall”. At the end of the show all wishes will be gathered and faxed to the Israeli Telephone Company a fax service directed to Jerusalem’s Western Wall.”