At an Iris van Herpen show, impassive models walk the runway in garments like a 3-D printed polyamide suit that more resembles a bony exoskeleton, a dress sculpted from billows of metal gauze and cow

Senior Curator Emeritus, Insects and Arachnids

Using wax to create giant blackfly and mosquito models in Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches. If you’ve been to the ROM’s recent exhibition Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches, you’ve encountered the

I stood, transfixed, at the intriguing yet disturbing bust in the Zodiac display inside ROM’s China gallery. My eyes followed the intricately carved tiger head seemingly consuming a human head, that

Photograph of educated man in his study by W. H. Grant, gelatin silver print, China, c. 1900. ROM 2011.79.20. Gift in memory of Rev. Dr. William Harvey Grant and Dr. Susannah McCalla Grant, M. D. View

Weapons are one of the most politically-incorrect subjects there are, associated with brutality and violence. But they are also important, and have often defined the cultures that made them (perhaps

The Nature of Diamonds and Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: The Remarkable Trypilian Culture (5400–2700 BC) both close at the ROM on March 22 All stunning and intriguing things must come to an end, and

Since 2004 I had walked the Qalamoun mountains around the monastery of Deir Mar Musa looking for archaeological features to record. In all that time I found one lithic, a stone tool from humanity’s

Rekindling the innate understanding that our fates are closely interwoven with everyone and everything on this planet

How a ROM entomologist’s research helped us understand the Monarch butterfly’s epic multi-generational migration