Join art historian and plant specialist Giovanni Aloi and the New York Botanical Garden online on August 12 at 6 pm Eastern as he presents his newest publication, Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art, a richly illustrated book that unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art. Through imagery and insights, he’ll share the crucial moments throughout history that signaled the formation of new movements, styles, and media that could not have occurred without the involvement of and interaction with plant life. $25. Register at www.nybg.org

As a strong advocate for the legitimacy of the botanical world’s place in art history, Aloi will also present an alternative history of art that foregrounds the truly indispensable contributions of plants. Giovanni Aloi‘s research focuses on the Anthropocene and new conceptions of nature in art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.

Aloi is the author of Art & Animals (2011), Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (2018), Why Look at Plants? The Vegetal Emergence in Contemporary Art (2019), Lucian Freud—Herbarium (2019), and Posthumanism in Art and Science (2020).

He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, and currently is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe and is co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press series ‘Art after Nature’.