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Two artists with fresh takes on the world’s coolest plants

April 25, 2018November 14, 2019 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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How 24 bodies transformed to tell one of nature’s most amazing stories

September 29, 2017October 1, 2018 / mike shanahan / 1 Comment

A strangler fig (left) and a banyan (right)

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Blacklisted by Canada… for drawing climate-change cartoons?

October 3, 2011 / mike shanahan / 6 Comments

Canadian artist Franke James says the government of Canada has flexed its diplomatic muscle to block exhibitions in Europe of her visual essays about climate change. Now she is fighting back.
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