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Explore nature’s dark side with the Natural History Museum

Life in the Dark, a new show at London’s Natural History Museum, is a powerful and creepy exercise in letting go of the normal in nature. It’s also very beautiful…

13 July 2018

At some point in the last couple of years, someone at London’s Natural history Museum must have decided that it should get beautiful. In 2016 Colour and Vision set a high bar; shows just how far they have come.

Parts of Life in the Dark are designed by the Jason Bruges studio, which is better known for huge, open-ended generative artworks like the station, and the which, years ahead of the competition, proved that bytes, set free with…

Article amended on 23 July 2018

We corrected details of parts of the exhibition

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