A Museum in Hawai’i Eliminates Single-Use Plastic Products
The Plastic Free Pipeline, an interactive sculpture made from 2,000 feet of derelict fishing nets and marine debris collected from Kahuku Beach on Oʻahu’s North Shore, is installed on the Museum’s...
View ArticleAn Illustrator’s Whimsical Perspective on the Everyday
An imagined future of human society adapting to climate change by illustrator Rosanna Tasker. (All images courtesy of the artist.) Illustration is a medium that straddles self-expression and...
View ArticleArtists, Designers, and Activists Address Climate Breakdown in a Pop-Up...
Installation view of Depictions of Living, the Art Pavilion, London, January 23–28, 2020 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LONDON — The glass front of the Art Pavilion in London’s Mile End...
View ArticleAn Anime Fantasy Combines Myth With Climate Change
Still from Weathering with You, directed by Makoto Shinkai (all images courtesy of GKids) Makoto Shinkai achieved international prominence following the release of 2016’s Your Name. The movie broke...
View ArticleUNESCO and Google Demonstrate How Climate Change Threatens Five Heritage Sites
Moai statues in Rapa Nui National Park, 2011. (Photograph by Ko Hon Chiu Vincent; all images courtesy of UNESCO) We tend to think of cultural heritage sites as needing preservation against the threat...
View ArticleDigital Meditations on Water
Marina Zurkow and Sarah Rothberg, “Toilet Joke I” (2020), ceramic toilet, recycled plastic pellets, iPhone, video (color, silent), mirrored plexiglass, pedestal, 51 x 21 x 30 inches (all images...
View ArticleLargest Buddha Statue In The World Threatened By Rising Waters
The Leshan Giant Buddha (photo by xiquinhosilva via Flickr) The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly submerged by ongoing floods in...
View ArticleA Photographer’s Quiet Reflections on Climate Change
Anastasia Samoylova, “Fountain” (2017), dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 40 × 50 inches (all images courtesy the artist) MIAMI — A certain species of image is endemic to Miami. Sparkling beaches,...
View ArticleAn Urgent Book Club Dedicated to the Climate Emergency
A mural outside of the Brooklyn Public Library (via Timothy Krause/Flickr) A new yearlong Climate Reads series, launched by the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and advocacy group Writers Rebel NYC,...
View ArticleZac Skinner’s Survivalist Sculptures
The parched, charcoal tile floor (“Anthropocene Stones,” 2020), jury-rigged survivalist structures, and stylized paintings portraying apocalyptic weather scenarios that comprise Zac Skinner’s plucky...
View ArticleSatirical Corporate Website Brands Ecofascism
What happens when alt-right ideologies are packaged in progressive aesthetics? This is the question posed by Ours, Samuel Marion’s new conceptual browser work, commissioned by Rhizome and presented by...
View ArticleFilmmakers Propose Solutions to the Climate Crisis
The Climate Action Film Festival, a project by the solar energy company SunCommon in partnership with Basilica Hudson and others, is now kicking off its second edition. The 10-day event brands itself...
View ArticleArt That Goes With the Floe
In his essay accompanying apexart’s current online exhibition, Goodbye, World, curator Raimar Stange wonders, “What options do the visual arts have in the face of the climate catastrophe?” He responds...
View ArticleAs NFT Sells for $69M, Artists Question Environmental Impact of Blockchain
The last few weeks have brought a torrent of headlines related to the increasingly astronomical prices fetched by NFT (non-fungible token) art: nearly half a million dollars for the Nyan Cat gif; $6...
View ArticleThe City as Seen From a Hi-Rise Window
The titles of two poems on facing pages, at the midpoint of Ed Roberson’s new collection, Asked What Has Changed, mirror each other in near-perfect symmetry. “Mutable Point of Axis,” about how...
View ArticleA New Lunchtime Screening Series Delves Into Our Environmental Crisis
These days, a proper lunch break can be hard to come by. Still, Critical Ecology on Film, a new lunchtime screening series presented by CUNY’s Mishkin Gallery, offers some incentive for stepping away...
View ArticleMaya Lin Erects a Ghostly Grove of Dead Trees in Manhattan
A new installation by American sculptor Maya Lin, Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park, will confront viewers with the devastating impacts of climate change head-on. Starting on May 10 and on view...
View ArticleStream Movies About Climate Change From Al Gore, David Attenborough, and More
Climate change’s threat to planet Earth gets worse by the day, and it’s crucial for people to educate themselves about the realities of the subject. Humanity’s precarious future depends on such...
View ArticleAncient Cave Paintings Are Deteriorating Due to Climate Change
Cave paintings created around 40,000 years ago on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, among the world’s oldest cave art, are being destroyed by the climate crisis. A new study conducted by...
View ArticleToga-clad Activists Crashed British Museum’s Reopening to Protest Oil...
This Saturday, on the first weekend of the British Museum’s reopening after a lengthy pandemic shutdown, protesters flooded the London institution’s Great Court in the latest demonstration against oil...
View ArticleCruise Ships Officially Banned From Venice
Yesterday, July 13, the Italian government announced an imminent ban on cruise ships from Venice’s waterways, also declaring its lagoon a national monument. The decision is a win for local activists,...
View ArticleImagining Our Climate Future
Between heat waves, wildfires, and melting glaciers, all of which set alarming records each year, lately it feels hard to imagine a climate future that isn’t dystopian. Yet Collaborative Survival — a...
View ArticleFlorida’s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort...
For nearly as long as there has existed a state called Florida, there has also endured a fantasy of Florida: a paradisiacal Shangri-La of windswept beaches, kaleidoscopic skies, and year-round...
View ArticleScientists Create the First Complete Map of the World’s Coral Reefs
The project utilized 2.25 million satellite images of shallow coral reefs around the globe.
View ArticlePainters Rejoice: Scientists Have Created the Whitest Acrylic Paint Ever Known
Their original goal was to create a paint that would effectively reflect sunlight away from a building to reduce energy usage, but now the discovery has earned a Guinness World Record.
View ArticleThe Emotional Pull of Nature Photos
From a sea lion in Monterey swimming by an N-95 mask to a polar bear in Norway, snuggling down on a small iceberg for the night.
View ArticleFilmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit’s Flooded Basements
Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
View ArticleEurope’s Extreme Heat Waves Bring Art to a Standstill
A floating art project can’t reach Documenta because the Weser River is too low and museums in the UK shutter galleries to keep workers and collections cool.
View ArticleExtreme Floods in Pakistan Devastate Cultural Heritage Sites
Walls over 4,500-year-old collapsed, tombs were lost, and a Buddhist temple was damaged in the flood-stricken Sindh province.
View ArticleCheeky Ad Campaign Protests Airlines’ Role in Climate Change
Some 500 satirical guerilla billboard ads posted across Europe featured texts such as "#SayYesToTheEndOfTheWorld" and “Low Fares to Plastic island.”
View ArticleArtists Raise $85K for Relief in Flood-Stricken Pakistan
Works by over 70 artists of the pan-South Asian diaspora were up for auction to help Pakistan’s most vulnerable communities in a women- and queer-led initiative.
View ArticleThe Van Gogh Is Fine; You Won’t Be
The real target of Just Stop Oil's tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh's painting. It was our complacency.
View ArticleClimate Activists Give Monet’s “Grainstacks” a Mashed Potato Facial
Germany’s Barberini Museum is the latest institution hit by the burgeoning food-on-masterpieces trend of climate activism.
View ArticleA Joyous Carnival to Celebrate David Graeber’s Lasting Legacy
Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war.
View ArticleThe Latest Climate Protests, Ranked
Since the trend is getting a little repetitive — though its message no less urgent — we got a little creative and ranked this weekend’s interventions. Using soup cans, of course.
View ArticleActivists Who Targeted “Girl With a Pearl Earring” Get Jail Time
A member of the activist group Last Generation called the Dutch court’s verdict “disgusting.”
View ArticleKarachi Biennale Artists Address Pakistan’s Devastating Floods
Rashid Rana and Amin Rehman trace the roots of the climate crisis back to human mismanagement and the government’s lack of investment.
View ArticleAs the World Burns, Museum Leaders “Deeply Shaken” by Climate Protests
MoMA’s Glenn Lowry, the Brooklyn Museum’s Anne Pasternak, and 90 others signed a statement condemning recent actions targeting protected artworks.
View ArticlePaintings of Half-Submerged Animals Foretell an Unsettling Future
Lisa Ericson renders her real-world subjects beautifully, but the situations in which we find them are uncanny, menacing, and unexpected.
View ArticleBritish Museum Pledges “Net-Zero Carbon” Despite Big Oil Funding
It’s unclear whether the London institution will renew its contract with the oil and gas giant British Petroleum when it expires in 2023.
View ArticleDid Air Pollution Inspire Impressionism?
A new study posits that rising smog levels in 19th-century London and Paris likely played a role in blurring the lines of realism.
View ArticleArt Between Land and Self
How do we consider land-inspired art in an age when huge swaths of our shared world are being clear cut, mined, drilled, and desertified?
View ArticleThe Artist Painting Icons of Earth’s Endangered Species
Angela Manno applies her knowledge of Byzantine iconography to memorialize the fauna and flora whose days are threatened or already past.
View ArticleA Crowd-Sourced Archive of Our Oceans’ Plastics
Pam Longobardi's new book Ocean Gleaning features her plastic-based artworks as well as logs of ocean waste sourced by 75 contributors.
View ArticleItaly Raises Museum Prices to Fund Flood Aid
The move comes amid worrying news of the impact of the floods on Italy’s cultural heritage, particularly in the hard-hit Emilia-Romagna region.
View ArticleCan Art Change Attitudes Toward Climate Change?
A study found that people who viewed climate data in the form of an artwork were less likely to lean on their preconceived notions.
View ArticleClimate Protesters Target Monet Painting in Sweden
Activists smeared red paint on “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny” (1900) at the Nationalmuseum, warning that landscapes like the one depicted will “soon be a thing of the past.”
View ArticleWildfires and Record Heat Threaten Italy’s Cultural Heritage
The Sicilian Archaeological Park of Segesta and the church of San Benedetto il Moro are among the landmarks impacted by fires in the Mediterranean.
View ArticleLife-Threatening Floods Force NYC Museums to Close
The Whitney, the Rubin, and many others shuttered or delayed their openings and heavy rains flooded the Noguchi Museum basement.
View ArticleOn Getting Things a Little Less Wrong
Climate Futurism suggests that the world’s civilizations must process lessons from its fraught colonialist histories to prepare for future ecological difficulties.
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