The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...
While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated ...
Pioneering Irish artists are at the heart of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new exhibition, Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art, spanning almost 300 years. The exhibition celebrates artists who ...
Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.
The hottest selfie spot in New York last week wasn’t some trendy pop-up museum or flashy public artwork. It was the ten-year-in-the-making flowering of the rare Amorphophallus titanum, a massive ...
From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...
July 14 (UPI) --A collection of 38 flower drawings by botanical artist Simon Taylor that were vital to the development of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London are at risk of leaving Britain, ...
Among the beautiful horticulture that characterizes the New York Botanical Gardens’ new exhibit, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, the Amorphophallus titanum is a spectacle all ...
Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.
In 2018, the once obscure and overlooked Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was catapulted into the limelight with the blockbuster retrospective “Paintings for the Future” at the Solomon R.
Switching out framed botanical prints according to seasons is a great way to keep your home decor fresh all year round. In ...