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Lina Puerta’s Art Mimics Botanical and Female Anatomical Forms

Avatar photo by Louis Bury December 9, 2021December 10, 2021

Puerta’s artworks strike a gentle balance between whimsy and sincerity.

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A Book Gathers Botanical Sketches from Across the Centuries

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

Botanical Sketchbooks is a compendium of the diverse ways plants have been observed, studied, and immortalized in centuries of art.

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Rediscover a 19th-Century Compendium of North American Trees

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 9, 2017May 9, 2017

Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A new book compiles over 270 plates from their original publication.

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The Early-20th-Century Photographer Who Magnified the Alien Beauty of Plants

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 28, 2017

Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured the sculptural details of plants, from the geometry of a seed pod to the alien curl of a fern.

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A Compendium of Shakespeare’s Plants, from Juliet’s Rose to Ophelia’s Bouquet

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 17, 2017May 20, 2022

The book Botanical Shakespeare, by historian Gerit Quealy with illustrations by Sumié Hasegawa-Collins, compiles the roughly 175 mentions of plants in Shakespeare’s plays.

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Why a Herbarium of 7.8 Million Plants Is One of New York’s Most Valuable Resources

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

The New York Botanical Garden is home to the world’s second-largest herbarium, a vital archive in an era of vanishing botanical collections.

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Casting New York City’s Oldest Tree in Luminous Glass

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

Artist Rachel Owens made casts of the Alley Pond Giant, the oldest living thing in New York City, and fused them with a rainbow of glass shards.

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Mark Dion Reimagines a Pioneering Botanist’s Lab

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz December 23, 2016

The former winter home of Dr. David Fairchild in Miami now houses a permanent installation that Dion extrapolated from the botanist’s life and work.

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An Artist Who Cultivates Deadly Plants and Photographs Them

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 20, 2016October 15, 2022

Matthew M. Kaelin takes pictures of carnivorous plants to highlight their beautiful and fatal details.

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The Uncanny Nature of Fake Flowers

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 1, 2016

The 73 photographic plates in Robert Voit’s The Alphabet of New Plants each frame a different floral detail, from bursting blooms to twisting branches.

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An Interactive Map of a Midcentury Botanist’s Amazonian Trips

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 21, 2016August 3, 2021

Richard Evans Schultes took peyote with the Kiowa in Oklahoma in the 1930s, was the first scientist invited to a hallucinogenic yagé ceremony in the Amazon’s Sibundoy Valley in the 1940s, and inadvertently helped launch the psychedelic era of the 1960s.

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A Tribute to New York’s Wilting Flower District

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 28, 2016March 30, 2016

If cities had such things as official botanicals, New York City’s might be the flower bouquet.

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