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Igniting curiosity and inspiring conversation, Spectrum brings you the latest news and perspectives from across the Exploratorium.
by Mary Roach • May 24, 2017
Box tattoos and bees? Writer Mary Roach spent time with our Welcome to WildCard exhibition team then made some surprising discoveries about cardboard boxes.
by Kevin Boyd • December 2, 2016
Meet Keith Newstead a featured artist in the Curious Contraptions exhibition at the Exploratorium.
by Pearl Tesler • September 7, 2016
“What time is it?” Ask this simple question and you’ll get a deliriously un-simple set of answers, courtesy of Timepieces, a new artwork by Katie Paterson on display at the Exploratorium.
by Exploratorium Staff • September 30, 2015
Bosun’s Bass by artist Tim Hawkinson is a tide-activated sound work that will be on display in the public space in front of the Exploratorium at at Pier 15.
by Megan Pruiett • September 3, 2015
Human history has been powerfully shaped by sought-for, traded, taxed, hoarded, fought-for, fortune-making salt. How satisfying to think of bovine artists at work, gradually shaping emblems to our shared need for salt.
by Kirstin Bach • July 21, 2015
Kirstin Bach of the Exploratorium's Center for Art & Inquiry discusses her recent visit to Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierras with Artist-in-Residence Ilana Halperin.
by Jackie Clay • June 16, 2015
Exploratorium Artist-In-Residence Nina Katchadourian's participation in the well-known "marshmallow test" study may inform her contemporary art practice.
by Exploratorium Staff • June 15, 2015
When we first met him, Juan Felipe Herrera was the poet laureate of California. The Library of Congress has announced a promotion of sorts: He has been tapped as the next poet laureate of the United States.
by Exploratorium Staff • June 11, 2015
PBS Digitial Studios' latest episode of The Art Assignment profiles Oakland-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian, an Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence and one of the most talented young artists in the Bay Area.