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In an extravagant show of evolutionary tricks and mating rituals, new footage by Adrian Smith of the wildly popular Ant Lab YouTube channel focuses on six tropical butterflies. The extraordinarily slow-motion montage zeroes in on a trio of tropical creatures as they crack open and emerge from their chrysalises and others like the hanging Blue Morpho as they take flight. Smith paired the spectacular clips with behind-the-scenes footage of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Living Conservatory, which fosters a climate-controlled environment that lots of of butterflies hatch from every few weeks. If you haven’t seen his previous footage yet, ensure you watch these moths and an uncommon muppet-esque troupe as they lift off the ground.
Like politics, all art is local till it isn’t anymore, a point pushed residence by Surrealism Beyond Borders, the Met’s tour d’horizon of the worldwide, half-century-long spread of Surrealism from its birthplace in …