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Don’t miss: Alienarium 5, an artist’s vision of contact with aliens

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Eyes as Big as Plates # Sinikka (Norway 2019) ? Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

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at London’s Barbican Centre combines art, science, design and music to reveal how technology can connect us to the beauty and complexity of the natural world. From 5 May.

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by palaeontologist Andy Secher explains how this versatile undersea arthropod came to dominate the oceans for more than 270 million years, and features hundreds of photos of unique fossilised specimens.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Metapanorama (2022) detail.

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, now at London’s Serpentine South Gallery, is artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s vision of what life would be like if first contact with aliens went superbly well – an “anti-War of the Worlds vision”, in her words.

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