How the Chicxulub Impactor gave rise to modern rainforests
New and improved plant sex: Plants produced attractive flowers containing sugary rewards for insects who carry pollen (basically the male sperm of the plants) to other flowers, helping plants reproduce. This strategy was so successful that flowering plants took over tropical forests, and the world.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the worlds climate systems. A new study published in Science sheds light on the origins of modern rainforests and may help scientists understand how rainforests will respond to a rapidly changing climate in the future.
Calder-Picasso: Two giants of modernity meet at the de Young museum
Triple Gong, ca. 1948. Brass, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 39 x 75 x 2 3/4 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Calder-Picasso at the de Young museum. Conceived by the artists grandsons Alexander S. C. Rower and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, it is the first major museum exhibition to explore the formal resonances between the works of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, two of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century. In more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographsincluding many iconic worksthe exhibition presents a compelling presentation of the artists exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which they defined from the figure through to abstraction.
Bonhams to offer works of art from the Estate of Yvonne de Chavigny Segerstrom
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) Yawl in the Channel 22 x 37 in (55.9 x 94 cm), Painted in 1974-75. Estimate: $700,000-$1,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Twenty-four works from The Estate of Yvonne de Chavigny Segerstrom will be sold in Bonhams auctions in New York and Los Angeles, from April through November 2021. Leading the group is Fairfield Porters (1907-1975) Yawl in the Channel, a magnificent landscape which will highlight the American Art Sale in New York on May 20. The painting is estimated at $700,000-1,000,000.
This masterwork by Porter, one of the leading representational American painters of the mid-20th century, was painted in the final two years of his life. The colorful landscape presents the artists mature painterly technique while still imbuing his own emotion, thoughts, and feelings into the work. The painting is a fantastic example of his commitment to a direct approach t
Group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley on view at Regen Projects
Installation view of Make-Shift-Future, curated by Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, March 27 May 22, 2021. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Regen Projects presents Make-Shift-Future, a group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley, featuring Kevin Beasley, Elaine Cameron-Weir, rafa esparza, Max Hooper Schneider, Eric N. Mack, Alicia Piller, Eric-Paul Riege, and Kandis Williams. I am interested in studying ancient literature because, like speculative fiction, it can massage loose the underpinnings of our attachments to pervasive contemporary mythologies, so that we might gain a clearer view of ourselves and reveal the blind spots. So many blind spots.