Get in the mood for Halloween with scorpion heads, rodent teeth, and spider claws. Fantastic photos of these objects are part of the art show at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The exhibition’s “artists” are the museum’s scientists. Their “artwork”—scientific pictures created with advanced imaging techniques. The exhibit features the work of:
John Sparks, who hunts for Madagascan cichlids in rivers crawling with crocodiles to study the fish’s hearing structures;
David Gruber, whose photos of neon green and red fluorescent reef creatures glow like aliens;
Ebel Denton, who blasts meteorites with electrons. Denton is curious about the composition of these space rocks, which were wandering through our solar system for billions of years before crashing to Earth;
Read the story I wrote for Scholastic about the exhibition at: Art as Science
The museum exhibition webpage is at: AMNH Exhibition
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