“To the bee, the world in which it lives is alternately the sunny fields and the close-packed darkness of the hive. It is a world of perfumes and odors, of objects seen in ultraviolet light as well as in rays visible to our eyes.” One of America’s great nature writers, Edwin Way Teale was never better than when he wrote about bees. The year 1940 saw the publication of The Golden Throng: A Book About Bees, a masterpiece of homage. Artists, too, have paid homage to the bee—for centuries. And that’s the subject of “Honey Yellow,” an exhibition in Wiesbaden that presents more than 140 bee-filled-and-focused paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, caricatures, crafts, and illustrated books. As Teale writes, “The moralist, the philosopher, the artist, the engineer, the poet, the political scientist, all have contemplated the bee with a sense of humility and awe.” —Laura Jacobs