Art
Coping with Climate Change
The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.
Louis Bury
Art
Materializing Memory and Trauma
The mementos and keepsakes that populate many of this show's artworks were once ordinary objects but now appear totemic.
Art
At Union Studio, Artists Engage in Serious Play Around Notions of Ecology
The eco-arts studio confronts dire realities with artistic resourcefulness and pluck.
Art
Claire Sherman's Leafy Canvases
Sherman's paintings offer a captivating tension between movement and stasis.
Film
Hans Op de Beeck Stages Silence
A whimsical fantasia constitutes the film's emotional and intellectual core.
Art
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Explores Psychological Depths
The painter's introspective subjects can make the viewer feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.
Art
Rocks, Waste, and Water
Ecological anxiety in shows by Davino Semo, Katherine Wolkoff, and Aaron Morse.
Art
Edward Burtynsky Depicts Our Alien Domain
The photographer's large-scale images depict landscapes altered and scarred by human industry and development.
Art
Vanished Art Recalled and Reinterpreted
In this exhibition contemporary artworks are paired with works that have been destroyed or lost to the annals of art history.
Art
Drawing the Essay
Colter Jacobsen is an artist whose methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with many poets and their work.
Art
Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.
Art
Urban Ecological Consciousness at Wave Hill
By providing more information than viewers might process, the show's dense, small-font text highlights an aesthetic challenge that confronts social practice art.