Art
Interactive Art Illuminates Our Relationship to the Sun
Daniel Rozin challenges us to explore how we interact with and perceive the sun in a fascinating new show.
environment
Interview
A Painter Helped Create a Website that Allows You to Buy Land and Preserve It
With Conserve.org people can conserve land acre by acre, with their full donation going to purchase affordable acreage.
Art
An Alphabet Made of New York City Trees
Artist Katie Holten created the New York City Tree Alphabet, and soon will lead the planting of messages with the living typeface.
Art
Seeking Beauty as the World Falls Apart
David Opdyke appears to understand why they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Rocks, Waste, and Water
Ecological anxiety in shows by Davino Semo, Katherine Wolkoff, and Aaron Morse.
Art
Edward Burtynsky Depicts Our Alien Domain
The photographer's large-scale images depict landscapes altered and scarred by human industry and development.
In Brief
See Rachel Whiteread's First UK Public Sculpture, an Ode to Environmentalism
Deep within Yorkshire's Dalby Forest, the artist has constructed an homage to nature conservancy and the end of World War I.
Art
The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King
A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.
Art
Testing the Legal Power of Art to Stop a Pipeline
A Blade of Grass and the Cardozo School of Law are hosting a mock trial for Aviva Rahmani's ecological art projects to stop the use of eminent domain for pipeline construction.
Art
Paintings of Toxic Landscapes Where Politics and Aesthetics Are in Perfect Balance
Greg Lindquist's landscape paintings, rendered in a range of queasy-making yellows and greens, address air and water pollution from coal-powered plant emissions.
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Documenting the Disappearance of America's Most Toxic Ghost Town
Starting in 2008, following a devastating tornado, Todd Stewart has photographed the toxic ruins of Picher, Oklahoma, a mining community turned ghost town.
Art
An Atlas Maps the End of the Earth
The Atlas for the End of the World maps the end of Earth as a biodiverse resource for human exploitation.