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'Everyone loves a mushroom': London show celebrates art of the fungi

Works by 35 artists, designers and musicians feature in exhibition opening in January

Aside from being one of the world’s greatest composers of experimental music, John Cage was a man obsessed with mushrooms who supplied New York restaurants with foraged fungi.

Before creating Peter Rabbit, Mrs Puddle-Duck and Timmy Tiptoes, Beatrix Potter’s big passion was looking through microscopes to investigate the germination process of fungal spores and painting mushrooms as accurately as possible.

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Zvttq4

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