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 ...
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 ...
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 world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating cultural shifts in its seemingly simple motifs, a new study reveals. The ...
The San Antonio Botanical Garden is transforming into an outdoor art experience for Spring Break with a large-scale installation and family-friendly activities.
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 ...
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, ...
Flora Indica began with an astonishing discovery: More than 7,500 botanical drawings made by Indian artists were lying unnoticed in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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 ...