Marjorie Backman

Marjorie Backman is a journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, WSJ.com, Time, and HuffPost.

Art

Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene

New York University's Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.

Clem Albers, "Arcadia, California, April 5, 1942" (courtesy National Archives and Records Administration)

Art

Photographs Trace US Government Abuses, from Manzanar to Guantánamo

Concurrent shows at the International Center of Photography feature historical images of Japanese-American detention camps in the 1940s and Edmund Clark’s recent projects tracking the "War on Terror" and covert anti-terrorism programs .