MISS DOCENT: Glass flowers, dog bones and mixing messages and media

Impressive permanent collections may have put our area museums on the map, but it's the rotating exhibits that keep visitors coming back. Every Thursday, Abigail Minor updates you on the newest and most browse-worthy. This week: Glass flowers, dog bones and mixing messages and media.

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MISS DOCENT: Glass flowers, dog bones and mixing messages and media

POSTED: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 3:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Arts Events | Arts Preview Visual Art

Photo: Rosamond Purcell

Everything Under the Sun

It’s difficult to keep a tangled pile of rib, jaw, and pelvic Eskimo dog bones from Greenland looking multi-dimensional within a flat surface, but Boston photographer Rosamond Purcell takes on the challenge in the exhibit "Everything Under the Sun," opening Saturday. Purcell sorted through the Academy of Natural Science’s 18 million specimens and, with assistance, lugged her selections up to the roof for three weeklong sessions of shooting. Purcell’s use of the perfect amount of sunlight is evident in 20 photographs of all the fluorescent-blue ratfish, bright but immobile Australian birds and stiff, floating amphibians you could want.

Through May 20, $10-$12, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 215-299-1000, ansp.org.

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