Nora Lawrence, associate curator at Storm King Art Center, was so taken with Peter Coffin’s piece Music for Plants at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris that she approached the artist about possibly creating a work for Storm King, the sculpture park whose monolithic metal assemblages positioned in a sylvan setting of rolling hills and green lawns offer motorists on the Thruway a tantalizingly glimpse of an Edenic art paradise. At the Palais de Tokyo, Coffin had asked musicians to compose music that they imagined would spur the growth and contentment of plants: an exercise that Lawrence said combined natural and cultural history in ways both “absurd and productive.” Subsequently, Coffin was commissioned to create an apiary at Storm King, which will attract bees to the 500-acre park and make them creatures of unusual scrutiny, transforming their activity into a living artwork.