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New York’s MET Hosts Exhibition Celebrates Female Photographers from Early 20th Century

Empty steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (AP file photo)
Empty steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (AP file photo)
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New York’s MET Hosts Exhibition Celebrates Female Photographers from Early 20th Century

Empty steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (AP file photo)
Empty steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (AP file photo)

Seeking to reevaluate the history of photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City launched a new exhibition focusing on female photographers of the first half of the 20th century, reported the German News Agency.

“The New Woman Behind the Camera” exhibition features about 180 pictures and objects by over 120 female photographers from more than 20 countries.

“The international scope of this project is unprecedented,” said Met museum director Max Hollein.

“Though the New Woman is often regarded as a Western phenomenon, this exhibition proves otherwise by bringing together rarely seen photographs from around the world and presenting a nuanced, global history of photography,” he added.

Works by Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange, Ilse Bing, Lola Alvarez Bravo and Florestine Perrault Collins will be among those on display.

The exhibition’s title refers to the feminist concept of the “New Woman” that emerged in the 1920s in which women began to experiment with how they expressed themselves professionally and personally.

The show is set to run until October 3 and will then move on from the museum to Washington DC, where it was scheduled to open last year, before the coronavirus pandemic upset that plan.

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Plant Native to Sumatra Warms Up to About Temperature of Human Body

A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
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Plant Native to Sumatra Warms Up to About Temperature of Human Body

A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images

This giant plant stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. It's the inflorescence of the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, a plant called a spadix that stands up to three metres tall, warms up to 36C at night and gives off the stench of a rotting corpse.

This wonder is actually a ruse to attract carrion flies and beetles to pollinate the small flowers that are tucked away at the base of the spadix inside a large bucket-shaped leafy wrapper, where the insects are trapped until the flowers are successfully pollinated, The Guardian reported.

A recent study revealed the plant’s pungent odours were made up of a stinky cocktail of sulphur chemicals, including the aptly named compound putrescine, which is given off by rotting animal carcasses.

This foul concoction is released only when the spadix warms up in short pulses.

The titan arum grows in the forests of Sumatra in Indonesia, and to add to its otherworldly qualities, the plant takes years to come into bloom for the first time, and when it does flower, the bloom only lasts a few days.