Art & Culture
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Wild About Mary Pratt
At first glance, Mary Pratt’s paintings are warm and inviting—casual glimpses into everyday domesticity captured through still life representations of bowls of fruit and jars of jam. Look closer and a less bucolic…
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Wild About Public Art
Public art can take many forms, from murals to sculptures to land art and even ephemeral light and video displays. Public art brings our cities and communities to life, adding vibrancy and reflecting…
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Wild About Natural Forms
For as long as we have created art, we have incorporated representations of the natural world into our works. From prehistoric cave paintings in France to petroglyphs in North America, depictions of animals…
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Wild About Neighbourhood Maps
If you drew a map of your neighbourhood, what would it look like? Whether it’s the city as a whole or our local neighbourhood, each of us sees the place we live a…
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Wild About Solarpunk
What if we imagined a better future? And more than that, what if we brought it to life? This is exactly what solarpunk asks us to do—to set aside dystopian, catastrophic visions of…
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Wild About Neo-Andean Architecture
What would it take to transform an entire city? In the Bolivian city of El Alto, architect Freddy Mamami is doing just that. Amidst the two and three story brick buildings of Bolivia’s…
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Wild About Blaschka Glass Specimens
Scientific specimens are nothing out of the ordinary for Harvard University, but the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants is something truly unique. Today, we have high-resolution photography and other technological…
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Wild About Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter was a mycologist, an illustrator, a breeder of Herdwick sheep, and a fierce advocate for the protection of the Lake District. She also wrote children’s stories about a bunny named Peter…
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Wild About Land Art
If you’ve spent any time outside, you’ve probably been drawn to play with natural materials—making designs from similar stones, creating a small diorama of twigs, or comparing leaves to see which is the…
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Wild About Clara Driscoll
Without a doubt, there is no artist who had a bigger impact on modern glass art and design than Louis Comfort Tiffany. His name is synonymous with stained glass, and in particular, stained…
