“Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man.”
—C.S. Lewis, Abolition of Man
The artworks shown here are by multiple artists working between 1901 and 1976.
A series of computerized machine embroidered doilies mounted on black velvet. The design of each doily is based on a different viral structure.
Guggenheim Fellow Erika Blumenfeld was artist-in-residence on a six-week expedition to Antarctica. This month’s Visual Explorations seeks to awaken the imagination to the intersection of art, science, and humanity.
I began this series of small drawings during my pregnancy to explore images of reproduction, gestation, and cellular growth within the confines of a restrained palette: pencil, needle, glue, paper.
A look into the bustling society of a hive full of honeybees.
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world.
Dense star environments can cause amazingly intricate patterns.