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Bulbophyllum echinolabium orchid Pretty? Yes. But it isn't Bulbophyllum echinolabium's bright colors that attract pollinating flies—it's the putrid stench. Sniff out a few hundred live orchids at the Museum of Natural History starting January 27.

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Live Orchids, Japanese art and African masks

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  • Smithsonian magazine, January 2007

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    Spicy Spiral
    Simryn Gill's first major U.S. show is at the Sackler Gallery until April 29. The Singapore-born installation artist's work is postmodern, multicultural—and meticulous. Sackler staff spent three days reassembling her 16-foot Forking Tongues out of dried chilies and thrift-store cutlery.

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    The New Orleans Museum of Art, graced with one of the nation's finest collections of traditional African works, is lending sculpture, masks and costumes to the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art until January 28.

     
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