Sentences with phrase «by whale bones»
Juliette Dumas» monumental column - like sculptures are inspired by whale bones, the largest skeletal structure in nature.
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On a whim, Osborne and Akerboom swabbed the bones from a prehistoric whale found by Alford.
«For a long time, our comprehension of whale evolutionary history was hampered by the fact that most paleontologists were searching for bones relatively close to home, in Europe and North America,» Lambert says.
The 126 bones of the latter - day leviathan, some laid out on tables, others in drawers, form the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled From the Deep: The Sperm Whale, Bone by Bone.
Among the many curiosities depicted are a village built entirely from whale bones and a stupefied, beached fin whale straddled by 15 inquisitive monks.
By comparing the bones of modern whales to fossils, a team of scientists has traced the growth spurt to about 4.5 million years ago, when climate change increased the food supply.
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The Jazz Museum at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel music.
«Don't Axe Me» will also feature the first New York presentation of Osedax (2010; made in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne)-- an immersive environment consisting of 16 mm film and painted slide projections inspired by a species of undersea worm that buries into the bones of whale carcasses.The exhibition highlights the humor, historical depth, psychological complexity, and formal inventiveness inherent in Gallagher's rich oeuvre.
«Don't Axe Me» will also feature the first New York presentation of Osedax (2010; made in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne)-- an immersive environment consisting of 16 mm film and painted slide projections inspired by a species of undersea worm that buries into the bones of whale carcasses.