Science Art
Explore the surprisingly symbiotic worlds of art and science through museum and gallery collections, exhibitions and Culture24 news, reviews, event listings, recommended websites and resources.
Science Museum announces arrival of Suzanne Treister's "gloriously detailed" Hexen 2.0
British artist Suzanne Treister will fill the Bridge gallery at London's Science Museum with intricate diagrams mapping technology and a set of 78 reimagined Tarot cards.
In her own Words: Photographer Eleanor Farmer on Blood, A Circulation of Curiosities
As she opens a show at Guy's Hospital in London, the photographer explains how her pictures of blood represent life and death, with the capacity to fascinate and repel.
Immortal Nature sees ten artists ponder impending doom at London's Edel Assanti
A psycho-geographical, end-of-the-world exploration of the relationship between civilisation and nature turns the floors of the gallery into Underworld, Earth and the Afterlife.
Grant Museum of Zoology welcomes Art by Animals to University College London
An anthropomorphic show at the Grant Museum, where curators have put together a series of works created by animals to take a "broad view of the phenomenon".
Glynn Vivian helps Vetch Veg turn former home of Swansea City into community artwork
Artist Owen Griffiths and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery are leading a community venture on the hallowed turf where Swansea once played as part of a Cultural Olympiad project.
Irene Kopelman takes explorer's touch to The Challenger's Report exhibition at Gasworks
An early 19th century optical telescope and a fired clay relief of canyons in southern Brazil are among the reflections of artist Irene Kopelman's explorations of the planet.
Eye of the beholder: The Art of Visual Perception at Embrace Arts in Leicester
A collaboration between visual artist Mariano Molina and neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga reveals in image and words what the brain really sees when it looks at art.
Robotville invades the Science Museum
This weekend, London's Science Museum will be taken over by a festival of European robotics to open a month-long celebration of robots. From child-sized Italian brainboxes to potential pets and......
iPods for dogs and iPhones bent into Babylon Towers in Electroboutique at Science Museum
Russian artists Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev marry art, technology and social comment in kaleidoscopically playful fashion in a pop-up show in London.
Jamie Hewlett, Peter Blake, Ralph Steadman and Margaret Atwood in Ghosts of Gone Birds
Gorillaz filmmaker Ceri Levy's call for creative responses to the plight of endangered birds results in an intriguing display of more than 80 artists at London's Rochelle School.
Ju Gosling's Abnormal – Towards a Scientific Model of Disability at the Hunterian Museum
Activist and artist Ju Gosling - aka Ju90 - rattles a few cages and shows that science cannot "fix" everyone in her London exhibition, says Jennie Gillions.
Curator's Choice: Ceri Levy on the extinct White Gallinule in Ghosts of Gone Birds
The curator and co-founder of Ghosts of Gone Birds, a range of artistic takes on extinct birds, on the contribution by illustration magazine Le Gun.
Daleks, martians, statues, Vikings and intoxication: Cambridge Festival of Ideas returns for 2011
Michael Moore can't make it and Tim Minchin and Richard Dawkins have long sold out. But it's the smaller draws at the University of Cambridge's festival which catch the eye.
Tree of Light project to inspire art and creativity in South-East as part of Olympic Games
Scientists will work with thousands of residents across the Thames Valley region to teach them about the power of trees ahead of public art performances alongside the Olympics.
Sperm Coat and fashion collection inspired by human life goes on show in Manchester
A provocative textile collection telling the story of the first 1000 hours of human life will be unveiled for the Manchester Weekender and the Manchester Science Festival.
