{"id":1574,"date":"2015-04-13T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T05:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2015-04-13T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T06:00:47","slug":"crochet-coral-reef-and-leonardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/crochet-coral-reef-and-leonardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Crochet Coral Reef and Leonardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening in June, the IFF&#8217;s <em>Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> will be on show alongside Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s celebrated <em>Codex<\/em>\u00a0<em>Leicester<\/em>, the book that contains his famous drawings of water. The exhibition, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/bill-gates-leonardo-da-vinci-notebook-281934\">Minneapolis Institute of Arts<\/a>, is a rare chance to see da Vinci&#8217;s original drawings and his related water-themed theories, including his ideas about the origin of the moon and the cause of tides. The wider exhibit surrounding the Leonardos is intended as an examination of the interface between art, science, mathematics and nature. As curator Alex Bortolot writes: &#8220;The exhibition is organized to explore ways in which &#8216;thinking on paper&#8217;, curiosity, and observation lead to innovation.&#8221; Picking up on the watery theme, the show also features Bill Viola&#8217;s video installation <em>The Raft, <\/em>and\u00a0a special section devoted to the mathematics behind the <em>Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> project.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Codex-Leicester-Press-Release_Final-v3.pdf\">[See MIA Press Release.]<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>\u201cLeonardo da Vinci, the\u00a0<\/em>Codex Leicester<em>, and the Creative Mind&#8221; is on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 21\u2013August 30.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281946\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/wp-content\/news-upload\/2015\/03\/codex.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo da Vinci , a page from &lt;em&gt;Codex Leicester&lt;\/em&gt; (1506\u201310). \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" \/><em>Leonardo da Vinci, a page from Codex Leicester (1506\u201310).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening in June, the IFF&#8217;s Crochet Coral Reef will be on show alongside Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s celebrated Codex\u00a0Leicester, the book that contains his famous drawings of water. The exhibition, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is a rare chance to see da Vinci&#8217;s original drawings and his related water-themed theories, including his ideas about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}