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Interview with Dale Chihuly

Guest blog by Douglas Thomson, Content Manager ROM Magazine Sculptor Dale Chihuly pushes artistic boundaries, using heat, human breath, gravity, and glass as his creative tools. CHIHULY, an exhibition by American sculptor Dale Chihuly, is set to open at the ROM on June 25. As an artist,

Chihuly Around the World

Chihuly Around the World

Chihuly’s permanent installations appear all over the world, including installations in the United States, Canada, England, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. These impressive installations appear to be constructed in a way that provides contrast between the

Profile: Canada's First Lady of Literature

Profile: Canada's First Lady of Literature

Eleanor Wachtel is a Canadian writer and broadcaster, and host of the CBC Radio’s popular literary show Writers & Company. Over the 26 years Wachtel has been hosting her show, she has interviewed some of the most compelling figures in Canadian literature, including Saul Bellow, Alice

Exhibit A: Light of the Desert Cerussite Gem

Exhibit A: Light of the Desert Cerussite Gem

At 900 carats, this magnificent gemstone is the world's largest faceted specimen of the mineral cerussite. Cerussite, a lead carbonate mineral, is extremely sensitive to heat and vibration—even warmth from the palm of a hand can damage it. Just imagine how much time and care the gem cutter

A New Dino Stamp Series

A New Dino Stamp Series

Named in 2013 by David C. Evans  (Royal Ontario Museum) and  Michael J. Ryan  (Cleveland Museum of Natural History), the  Acrotholus audeti (Ack-RHO-tho-LUS) is one of five dinosaurs featured in Canada Post's new "Dinos of Canada" stamp series. Acrotholus audeti, approximately

New to ROM: Nao Uda, Words Fail Me, 2013-15

New to ROM: Nao Uda, Words Fail Me, 2013-15

Nao Uda, born in Yokohama in 1983, is a contemporary Japanese artist who works in drawings, photography, and paintings. Having received her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2007, Nao lived in Toronto as an artist in residence at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Center thanks to a

Behind the Blitz: The Heart of the Data

Behind the Blitz: The Heart of the Data

Guest blog by Angela Telfer, the Data Management Lead for Bio-Inventory and Collections Unit of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), and Database Coordinator for the Ontario BioBlitz program During the BioBlitz, you will find me camped out at the Species Depot. I won’t go out into the

Behind the Blitz: Become the Biodiversity

Behind the Blitz: Become the Biodiversity

Blog by Stacey Lee Kerr, Biodiversity Storyteller / Creative Producer for the ROM's Centre for Biodiversity At this year's Ontario BioBlitz, things are set to get a little wild... we've invited everyone to dress up as an Ontario species for our NatureFest Costume Contest. But what