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.
environment
Art
A Symposium for Sea Kelp
At Norway's Lofoten International Art Festival, seaweed took center stage as subject and material for artists and researchers as part of their "Kelp Congress."
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
Flowers Become an Unlikely Means to Discuss Identity and Politics
The works in Figuring the Floral start a conversation, collaborate, and even merge with the natural beauty of the public garden and cultural center Wave Hill.
Art
Listening to Plants
Adrienne Adar's attention to botanical sentience seeks to decenter human perspectives on non-human entities.
Books
A Black-and-White World Beneath the Ocean
"The images in this book are a reflection of what I hear beneath the waves," photographer Christian Vizl writes in Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves, his stunning book of undersea photography.
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.
In Brief
Skyscrapers (and Museums) May Soon Face Environmental Restrictions in New York City
City Council has passed the Climate Mobilization Act, which tasks qualifying buildings to reduce CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 2005 levels or face fines.
Art
Blueprints for Our Future Planet as It Moves Toward Extinction
Two artists wrestle with the intersections of technology and massive ecological shifts brought on by the Anthropocene.
Art
Sarah Cameron Sunde's Immersive Performances
The artist seeks to address the severed relationship between the landscape and the viewer.
Art
Artists Illuminate the Catastrophic Future of Rising Sea Levels
Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta activated three synchronized lines of light to illuminate the future's projected high tide if climate change progresses at its current pace.