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Author, curator, and educator specializing in the representation of nature in modern and contemporary art. Tireless gardener. Founder and Editor in Chief of Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture.
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Wonderful day at the Drieahaus Museum talking to visitors and leading tours of 'Materialities' in the company of some artists included in the exhibition. Great turn out! We will do it allover again on April 5th. Entrance to the museum will be free all day, tours included See you then! #materialities

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A dialogue between Spela Petrič’s artistic research into relations of automation in horticulture and Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko’s philosophy of contamination as a framework for encountering industrial greenhouses. Positing the greenhouse as a test-bed for future automation-centered ecosystems,

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Materialities is in full swing! This coming Saturday, March 1st, entry to the museum is free all day (11:00am to 5:00pm) thanks to a generous grant from the Terra Foundation. At 1:30 I will lead a tour of Materialities. Artists Rebecca Beachy, Barbara Cooper, Laleh Motlagh, Edra Soto, and Mathew

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Rebecca Beachy's 'Mercury's Hearth: Coal, Electricity, Fire and Industry', 2024 is one of the fourteen works featured in 'Materialities', the exhibition I have curated for the Driehaus Museum in Chicago. Come visit!

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Swedish friends! On Wednesday, March 26, I'll be in Stockholm to discuss plants, sound art, and representation with my dear colleague Michael Marder. We've been invited by artists Simon Torssell Lerin and Bettina Hvidevold Hystad to join the launch of their new exciting book, 'Electronic Flora'.

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In the essay "Rendering a plant protagonist" Bernice Nauta and GC Heemskerk explore the making of 'The Plantriarchy', a film where an “invasive” plant species is the lead character. The first part combines a synopsis with interviews from plant philosopher Norbert Peeters and plant physiologist Geert

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Very early rise for more 'Materialities' press events and live TV broadcast. Love the banners outside the museum! #materialities #art #posthumanism #newmaterialism

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Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

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I am very excited to announce the opening of 'Materialities', the exhibition I have curated for the Driehaus Museum in Chicago over the past year and half. We commissioned 14 exceptional artists to create, adapt, and restage artworks in response to objects and materials in the Nickerson Mansion,

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The recording of the presentation 'Plant Politics: Uncontainable Vegetal Agencies' I gave at VUT-FAVU in Brno during November 2024 is now online. In this talk, I map the ideological foundations that underpin human-plant relations in art to show how these have been shaped by colonialist,

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Sam Droege’s striking macrophotography reveals bees in a way we’ve never seen before. Since 2010, Droege, head of the US Geological Survey Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program, has catalogued portraits of 4,000 bee species across the United States.

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My grandmother kept two large pots of farfugium in her Calabrian home. As a child, I marveled at the large and glossy, umbrella-shaped leaves, though I only spent the summer months in the south before returning to Milan for school, so I never realized that the plant actually bloomed.

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'Suspended' by Britt Ransom is an installation exploring what is speculated to be the oldest live oak tree in New Orleans, Louisiana. Located in City Park, the McDonogh Oak’s branches are propped up by a series of telephone poles and it sits on top of an ever-shifting landscape

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Where are all the left wing billionairs who could team together to save the US from this disaster?

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While researching my book 'Lucian Freud: Herbarium' a few years ago, the wonderful poet and artist Annie Freud -- who witnessed firsthand her father's intimate relationship with plants in the privacy of their home--told me how Freud often appreciated his plants in terms of behavior,

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A curious ornithological alignment in the garden. Four male cardinals lined up at the feeder, each awaiting its turn like planes descending onto a runway. #cardinals #garden #birds #chicagowinter

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Do people people who say "it will be an awful four years" really believe this will only last 4 years? Think again...

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