Reads tagged with “art”
Rare Butterflies and Unsung Pollinators: Gorgeous 18th-Century Drawings by the First Artist and Naturalist to Depict the Wing-borne Beauty of the New World
The world’s first pictorial glimpse of the strange and wondrous creatures that give our planet its scent and color.
Seeking an Aurora: A Wondrous Illustrated Celebration of Earth’s Most Otherworldly Spectacle of Light and Color
Transcendence and tenderness in the lacuna of awe between the creaturely and the cosmic.
Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon: Hasui Kawase’s Stunning Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 1920s-1950s
Sylvan sublimity between the heavens and the deep blue sea.
Proximity: A Meditative Visual Poem for Those Reaching for Something They Can’t Quite Grasp, Inspired by Trees
Soulful sylvan consolation partway between David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, and the Buddha.
How Pythagoras and Sappho Radicalized Music and Revolutionized the World
The story of the invention of the love song, the world’s first algorithm, and the mathematics of transcendence.
Naomi Shihab Nye’s Beloved Ode to Kindness, Animated
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
Secrets from the Center of the World: Poet Joy Harjo’s Reflections on Science and Meaning in Response to an Astronomer’s Otherworldly Photographs of Earth
“I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.”
A Cenotaph for Newton: The Poetry of Public Spaces, the Architecture of Shadow, and How Trees Inspired the World’s First Planetarium Design
How a forgotten visionary’s futuristic dream dared generations to reimagine the relationship between nature and human creativity.
Dorothy Lathrop’s Dreamscapes: Haunting Century-Old Illustrations of Fairy-Poems by the Woman Who Became the First to Win the Caldecott Medal
Poetic enchantments in pen, ink, and imagination.
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