But this Saturday, October 16, the Natural History Museum's new exhibition, "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef," features the crocheted handiwork of hundreds of people from the Washington, D.C. area ...

The sisters set up a website, the art press picked it up, and before long the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project went viral: More than 3,000 volunteers wielded hooks and yarn to create an array ...

In fact, the Crochet Coral Reef is the biggest participatory science and art project on Earth at the moment, according to the Wertheim sisters. The Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery is running an exhibition ...

Sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim started the Crochet Coral Reef project in 2005 when they learned pollution and global warming may soon completely destroy the Great Barrier Reef in their ...

Coral reefs inspired the crochet exhibition “Austrian Satellite Reef,” by Margaret and Christine Wertheim. It is on view at the Schlossmuseum Linz in Austria.

To raise awareness of the threats posed to reefs, Australian-born, Los Angeles-based twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim created a traveling art project called Crochet Coral Reef, where as ...

The Wertheims, 49, grew up in Queensland in Australia, where the approximately 350,000km2 reef -- and the billions of tiny organisms that it comprises -- is located. But the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral ...

Community members are invited to participate in the Berkshires Satellite Reef, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef, a communal art project entailing the crowd-sourced creation of a life-size ...

The crochet enthusiasts hope to replicate the vibrant colours and astounding ecosystems found in coral reefs. (iStockphoto)"When I saw the poppies together, I thought: 'Oh my god, that looks like ...