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.
Climate Change
Art
Artists Help Scientists Map the Climate Crisis
The "Phenomenal Ocean" Convening brought together artists, scientists, and lawyers to take a deep look at the “Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate,” issued in September.
In Brief
Greta Thunberg's Handwriting Sprouts as a New Typeface
The young climate change activist has galvanized support around the world. The latest example is this typeface by the designers at Uno.
Art
The Haunting Image of Home Amid Climate Change
In the face of natural disaster, artists question how the overwhelming anxiety of environmental degradation can be harnessed into creative action.
Art
A Moscow Museum's Ecological Rallying Cry
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.”
Film
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Film
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.
Film
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.