Little Show of Horrors

Opening reception Fri., Aug. 14, 5-8 p.m., free (R.S.V.P. requested), through Aug. 23, Bartram's Garden, 5400 Lindbergh Boulevard, 215-729-5281, davinciartalliance.org.

by Kyle Press

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Published: Aug 5, 2009

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The Da Vinci Art Alliance and Bartram's Garden are celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin in the usual fashion: huge cake, pointy hats — and an outdoor art exhibit about insectivorous plants, which the father of modern biology had a major thing for. "Darwin was the first person to catalog carnivorous plants," says curator Deb Miller. "When Bartram's presented them as a concept for the exhibit, everyone [at Da Vinci] said the same thing. 'I had a Venus flytrap when I was little!'" Expect Little Shop of Horrors-esque three-dimensional depictions of people being devoured by hungry flora.

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