art and nature

BBC Radio 4's longstanding series looks at how humans have interacted with the natural world:
BBC Radio 4 - Natural Histories

A new series has looked at artistic and natural artefacts and how they
BBC Radio 4 - The Art of Innovation

A couple of episodes:

Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth on challenges by Romantic artists and naturalists to grapple with cloud patterns, from Constable's fine art to a new science of meteorology

BBC Radio 4 - The Art of Innovation, Masters of Spectacle

Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth focus on the drama captured in de Loutherbourg's Coalbrookdale by Night, which shaped early impressions of Britain's Industrial Revolution

BBC Radio 4 - The Art of Innovation, Observing the Air

With a little more here:
https://futurecity.co.uk/portfolio/a-cloud-index/


This is from the Science Museum:

Together, art and science help us to interpret, study and explore the world around us.

Examining this ongoing relationship, The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter looks at the interaction between scientific progress and social change, how machinery has both influenced and threatened the human body and how tools that go beyond human senses can capture the unseen.

See iconic artworks, including works by Hepworth, Hockney, Lowry, Constable, Boccioni, Turner and contemporary artists Cornelia Parker and Conrad Shawcross.

The exhibition brings together loans from Tate, National Gallery, V&A, National Museums Scotland, the Estorick Collection and more alongside rarely displayed objects from the Science Museum Group’s Collection. Through four sections and twenty stories, discover how we have questioned our relationship with society, our bodies, the environment and found patterns in nature, as we continue to interpret and explore the world around us.

Book now to discover these fascinating stories through textiles, film, photography, paintings, sculptures, models and scientific objects.

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• In partnership with BBC Radio 4, a landmark 20-part radio series is airing now and is available as a podcast on BBC Sounds. 
• An accompanying book published by Transworld is available from the Science Museum Shop.
   

Header image: Coalbrookdale by Night, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1801 (Science Museum Group Collection) 

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