Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...
This fall, a group of artworks by Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, and other contemporary artists will simultaneously go on view in a dozen different gardens worldwide. In a sense, that is. They’re augmented ...
The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...
Nowadays, when life for the vast majority of population has been reduced to plain survival in smog-entombed cities, where breathing means inhaling other people's coughs, sneezes and various exhausts, ...
Art is everywhere including in nature. Case in point, the Living Art Festival on Miami Beach, a botanical art installation, that fuses natural elements with artistic creativity. The festival was ...
Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...
Floribunda, a new exhibit at the Petaluma Arts Center, shows why artists for centuries have been inspired by the botanical world. What: The Hunt Institute's 14th International Exhibition of Botanical ...
Dick Rauh pushes himself up from a chair in his Westport studio, eager to share yet another example of his latest work. “Look at this. This is the flower of an oak tree. What I love about this is the ...
The Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators presents the fine art exhibit “Wet Feet: Plants That Live in a Watery World” at the 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show March 3-11 at the Pennsylvania ...
You do not have to be a "plant nerd" to enjoy a botanical garden. According to Wikipedia’s definition, botanical gardens are well-tended parks or green spaces displaying a wide range of plants that ...