In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

There was a place down at the delta that will be forever etched in my brain as an Henri Rousseau-esque tableau ... long-legged brown birds looking intently for fish to stab.

For the birds The inspiration for the series came ... which depicts two men rowing down the Schuylkill. And the Henri Rousseau exhibit at the Barnes that opens in October could provide good ...

Nature has always been a muse. Be it for the singers and poets who compared their lover to a ‘sunny day’ to artists and ...

(Image: Henri Rousseau/Net) Claude Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ is not one painting, but a series of creations, each just as beautiful as the other. Monet painted countless water lily paintings ...

In The Neverending Story: Part II, curated by Bob Colacello, the Vito Schnabel Gallery continues to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement launched in Paris in 1924, with the French poet ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Birds possess ancient lung proteins, CL-10 and CL-11, which compensate for the absence of surfactant protein D (SP-D) found in mammals. These proteins play a key ...

Henri-Paul Rousseau is the delegate-general of Quebec in Paris. While it is impossible to predict the next moves by Donald Trump’s administration – let alone their full consequences – it is ...

“If you go to a grassland in the Chicago area — if it’s big enough — you’re going to see those birds,” said Chicago Bird Alliance President Judy Pollock. “The whole area used to look ...

The amazing thing about filming penguins in the wild, “Secrets of the Penguins” cinematographer Bertie Gregory tells Variety, is that since the big birds don’t have land-based predators ...

Bird feeders and baths beckon feathered friends into the landscape, but less desirably, so does a fresh application of grass seed over your lawn. So how to keep birds from eating grass seed ...