The Coming World is an ambitious portrait of a dark future in which the world has run out of its resources, but still hasn’t found a way to “Planet B.”
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The Wonders and Terrors of Humanity’s Impact on Earth
Featuring stunning landscape photography, the documentary Anthropocene surveys a new era of human-driven geology.
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An Evening of Music, Films, and Poetry on Climate Change
Four Corners Media will present “Sea Change” — a night of art and activism in Brooklyn in which groups like Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future will discuss their plans in the fight for climate change.
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The Sprawling Ecologies of Olafur Eliasson
The curators of Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life have highlighted the the open-endedness of his practice by allowing the exhibition to spill out over the boundaries of the ticketed space into corridors, the terrace outside, and other places.
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Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future
Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.
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Rising Tides and Climate Change Color the Venice Biennale This Year
Artistic allusions to rising waters can be found across the Venice Biennale this year, and they strike home with a particular power given the ongoing destruction of the natural world.
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The Mutations We May Endure When Our Global Environment Becomes Uninhabitable
Joel Potrykus’s new film Relaxer is at once his smallest — following a single protagonist isolated in his apartment for the entire runtime — and his most visionary.
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What New Yorkers Are Too Afraid to Say About the Future and Climate Change
In the documentary The Hottest August, director Brett Story interviews sweaty bystanders about how the world is changing.
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Repairing a Broken Planet Through Optimism and Design
Could you empathize better with a blade of grass if it had an email address? What about the entire ecosystem?
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Josh Kline’s Water World
The artist imagines a future in which an Antarctic ice sheet has broken, resulting in a catastrophic sea-level rise.
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Two Books Take on the Vast Ecological and Social Consequences of Climate Change
A Year Without a Winter looks to the past to imagine how people might grapple with the climate upheavals of the future, while A Moving Border explores how rising temperatures have changed the geography of Europe.
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Transforming Charts and Graphs About Climate Change Into Art
Data visualization artist Alisa Singer’s exhibition Environmental Graphiti turns raw climate information into semi-abstract portraits.