News
A Photographer Captures the Majesty of Glaciers, and Their Tragic Disappearance
Patricia Carr Morgan describes her photographs of melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland as “a plea of mourning.”
Antarctica
Art
Recreating the Sounds of Antarctica
With dripping, creaking, flowing, artist Katie Wood and scientist Grant Macdonald build an uncanny aural simulacrum of a melting continent.
Art
An Ominous Score for Antarctica's Collapsing Glaciers
In downtown Chicago, the artist duo Luftwerk has created a public sound piece that evokes the calving of Antartica's Larsen C ice shelf.
News
118-Year-Old Painting of a Dead Bird Discovered in a Hut in Antarctica
For over a century, a small watercolor of a bird was forgotten in an Antarctic hut under penguin poop and moldy paper.
Art
Artists Issue Passports to Antarctica, the Final Borderless Frontier
To encourage public awareness of the ongoing role of Antarctica in global cooperation, France-based artist duo Lucy and Jorge Orta launched the mobile Antarctic World Passport Delivery Bureau in 2008 where anyone can pledge citizenship to the southernmost continent.
Books
Antarctic Architecture for Scientists at the Edge of the World
Antarctic exploration no longer involves frigid winters lodged in wooden shacks, or the threat of your ship being smashed to pieces in the ice with no means of communicating home.
Art
100-Year-Old Photographs of Doomed Expedition Discovered in Antarctica
Some photographs are best left to be discovered decades after they were first exposed. Much like the work of Vivian Maier — whose images were found years after she said her goodbyes — a recent finding of 22 undeveloped cellulose nitrate negatives from a 1914-1917 Antarctic expedition reignites our w