Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow reveal water’s unearthliness.
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Sarah Cameron Sunde’s Immersive Performances
The artist seeks to address the severed relationship between the landscape and the viewer.
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Imagine If a Victorian Scientist Studied the Plastic Debris in Our Oceans
Mandy Barker’s Beyond Drifting features pollution collected recently on the shores of Ireland, but photographed as if under a 19th-century microscope.
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The Contested Histories of Water
Two group shows make the case that, even at its most innocuous, water still poses hidden dangers.
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The Inaugural Triennial on New York’s Waterways Drops Anchor
Works on Water, a new triennial on New York’s waterways, hosts an exhibition on local artist engagement with the city’s tides and currents.
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An Audio Tour Dredges Up the Dark Ecology of NYC’s Newtown Creek
A new field guide takes listeners on a walk along one of the country’s most polluted waterways, where unexpected nature mingles with relics of industry.
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Explore a Virtual Museum of Digital Water
Pippin Barr’s v r 3 examines one of the biggest challenges in game design: rendering water.
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A Luminous Look at Turner’s Port Paintings
An exhibition at the Frick Collection unites for the first time three of J.M.W. Turner’s 1820s port paintings, created in an age of newly open borders in Europe.
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Exploring New York City’s Silent Shores
The 600 miles of New York City’s shoreline that secured its status as a center of trade in the 18th century now host some of its more forgotten spaces.
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Worship Below the Waves: A Drowned Church Surfaces
A 400-year-old church drowned in 1966 has reemerged in Mexico.
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An Artist-Run Bottled Water Museum Springs Up in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — There are 324 bottles of water currently on view at the Museum of Bottled Water (MBW) in the Crossroads Arts District, some flat, some sparkling, and featuring labels from across the globe with an emphasis on US branding.
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From Droughts to Pollution, a Photography Award Documents World’s Environmental Crisis
Try to reconcile these numbers: one billion people go to bed hungry every night, yet Americans and Europeans throw away half of all food they purchase uneaten.