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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of empire is the story of humans—that is how it is taught and generally understood. But what if it is, in fact, the story of plants? Poppies, pepper, nutmeg, cotton, tea—the British Empire ...

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, ...

Plants, in the American Indian tradition, manifest a power closely intertwined with humans, touching on spiritual and physical health, culture and beauty. Of course, no culture has a lock on the ...

Art imitates nature and vice versa at the Tropical Conservatory Gallery in Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens. Nothing appears as it should in “The Nature of Things” exhibit, where a bouquet of flowers is ...

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 ...