Andrea Wulf

3Sat "Kulturzeit" & ZDF Morgenmagazin: Review and Interview "Fabelhafte Rebellen"

3Sat "Kulturzeit did a proper TV report about 'Fabelhafte Rebellen' including actors speaking lines from the book (and an interview with me).

The report comes 30min into the programme: click here 

And here is a shorter 2min interview in ZDF Morgenmagazin click here

WSJ: 'Turning Science into Art'

Here is an article that I wrote for the WSJ about Humboldt's influence on the American painter Frederic Edwin Church - in conjunction with an exhibition on Humboldt and Church at Church's amazing house at Olana in the Hudson Valley.

 click here for WSJ

Download WSJ Turning Science Into Art

info on the exhibition at Olana (15 May - 30 October 2016) click here

British Library Blog Entry: Andrea Wulf 'Old Bits of Trees'

Here is my blog entry for the Britsh Library Blog about the trees coming down in George Washington's Mount Vernon - but also about a Washington momento that I now own. 

click here for blog entry ... and note my new title 'Eccles Centre Writer-in-Residence emeritus'!!

 

Interview BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves: Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape at the Royal Academy

Here is an interview with BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves about the new "Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape" exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Interview starts at around 14min.

click here

Article The Garden, Remote Rescues, February 2009, Kew Gardens

This year is the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This article looks at Kew's work around the world (with a particular focus on endangered island flora).

 

click here for a PDF of the article

Article The Guardian, 20 May 2008, How Does Your Garden Grow?

If you aspire to the horticultural perfection of Chelsea Flower Show, your rusty spades and hoes may not be enough. Expert gardeners keep a vacuum cleaner, a hairdryer and bags of cotton wool in the shed, too. Andrea Wulf reveals some surprising trade secrets.

Link to full article

BBC Radio 3 Night Waves: New Gallery for Botanical Art at Kew Gardens – Shirley Sherwood Gallery

Kew’s new gallery will open on 19 April 2008. For the first time they will be able to show some of their 200,000 botanical drawings and prints (which until now were only available for researchers and scientists). The new building is connected to the fabulous Marianne North gallery (which houses some 800 plant paintings – floor to ceiling – by the formidable Marianne North who travelled across the globe in the 19th century in search of plants).

On Wednesday I went on a sneak preview to review it on BBC Radio 3 Night Waves on 10 April. The thematic hanging of the painting and drawings in the new gallery is a bit confusing but if ignored, the exhibition is thoroughly enjoyable. Old watercolours are successfully juxtaposed with contemporary botanical art. There is Walter Hood Fitch’s subtle pencil drawing of the Victoria amazonica (a South American water lily) which caused a sensation when it flowered for the first time in Britain in 1849 (and the protruding veins of the strong flat leaves inspired Joseph Paxton’s structure of the Chrystal Palace). 

The whole exhibition shows exquisitely how botanical drawings straddle art and science.

Link to Kew Gardens Botanical Art Gallery