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Abbott Handerson Thayer Natural History Museum, London
From Madagascan moths to clever clams, this show brings the complex story of how and why animals see the world through different eyes vividly to life
Darwin's octopus gazes back at me from its jar, eyes deep and intelligent and sentient at least they would be if this mollusc were not a long-dead specimen preserved in chemicals. This is no distinct species, but the actual pet octopus Charles Darwin kept on board HMS Beagle. The eyes into which I peep once peeped into his.
In fact, there is an eerie sense of reciprocity throughout the Natural History Museum's mind-expanding Colour and Vision show. It makes you aware of your own eyes as you explore this exhibition about seeing in the natural world. There are few visual experiences quite as fascinating and challenging as looking at fossils, those stony images of ancient life, as intricate and subtle as any work of art and sometimes just as abstract. It is hard to make sense of the oldest fossils here: can the blobby shape of Dickinsonia really be life as we know it?
Some jellyfish have efficient eyes while lacking the brain power to process the optical information
All this beauty is desperate stuff: animals evolve colour and vision to gain advantage in the struggle for existence
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'ARCHIPLAN' interprets the planimetric language of famous figures like zaha hadid, le corbusier, frank gehry and tadao ando, modeling their schemes as a series of dynamic labyrinths.
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sheets of colorful construction paper are carefully overlapped to form vast circular pools of pigment, descending towards an unseen depth.
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domesticated and cultivated only by its own nature, this vast concrete vegetation oscillates between order and chaos.
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stylist anna keville joyce teamed up with photographer agustín nieto to create a sequence of compositions that illustrate a hybrid of emoticons and edibles based on three different countries.
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the installation captures images of the sky which are then translated into fifty-three shades of blue.
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A new exhibition claims Vincent Van Gogh's mental illness hampered his work, rather than drove his singular vision and presents fresh medical evidence about his notorious self-mutilation
Madness terrified Vincent van Gogh, yet he also wondered if it was inseparable from artistic genius. In letters to his brother Theo that prove him one of the great writers as well as artists of the 19th century, he broods more than once on an 1872 painting by Emile Wauters called The Madness of Hugo van der Goes, which shows the 15th-century Flemish painter looking a bit like Stanley Kubrick on an intense day as a victim of mental illness.
Painting, far from a release of his inner demons, was a controlled and steady labour through which he tried to stay sane
In the film Lust for Life he is portrayed as a character tragically unable to control torrents of emotion
Related: Science peers into Van Gogh's Bedroom to shine light on colors of artist's mind
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