Art & the Environment

At the San José Museum of Art, a two-day climate symposium moved from case studies inside the museum to a field walk along Coyote Creek. Reimagining Our Waterways, held October 16–17, brought artists into direct conversation with scientists, civic officials,...

UNESCO has begun testing a practical climate-action toolkit for World Heritage sites in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, moving cultural preservation from emergency response toward routine anticipation. The historic center is the first cultural property—and the...

In the cultivated landscape of London’s Regent’s Park, two works at Frieze Sculpture make industrial waste look uncannily alive. Douglas White’s seven-meter Black Palm rises from discarded truck tires and steel. Nearby, Catriona Robertson’s WYRM sends monumental...

Two artists are using London’s October auction cycle to convert art-market value into climate infrastructure. Igshaan Adams and Patricia Leite donated works to Christie’s for Artists for Climate Action, a partnership between Gallery Climate Coalition and...

Sara Flores’ paintings begin with the forest, but they do not treat the Amazon as scenery. The Shipibo-Konibo artist works with kené, an ancestral visual language of interlocking geometry, and natural dyes applied to raw cotton. In her hands, pattern becomes a way to...

A rescued Caribbean flamingo named Bob has become the center of an environmental story that now travels through photography, education and conservation. Jasper Doest’s Meet Bob opened at the Siena Awards Photo Festival on October 10 and remains on view through...

Anina Major has transformed a waterfront gallery at Pérez Art Museum Miami into a walkable ecosystem of woven clay, bottle trees, sea glass, sand, and crushed conch shells. The Sacred Mangrove, on view through August 1, 2027, is the Bahamian-born artist’s most...

Design Museum Gent has reopened after a four-year, €20 million expansion that treats the building itself as an exhibition about material responsibility. The new five-level DING wing adds approximately 2,000 square metres for exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and...

The European Union has launched a ten-year, €215 million partnership to protect cultural heritage from climate and environmental change. The European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage brings together 90 partners from 30 countries, with €65 million...

Julian Charrière will open Deep End at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on November 15. The exhibition is the French-Swiss artist’s first solo museum presentation in Los Angeles and one of the inaugural projects supported by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt...

At Milan’s Natural History Museum, a speculative future has entered the display cases. L’Era Plasteozoica. Una distopia ecologica imagines an epoch in which plastic has become so entangled with living systems that a museum might classify synthetic debris as though it...

Fungi are easy to notice when they erupt above ground and almost impossible to comprehend when their networks disappear beneath it. A new exhibition at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery uses art to make that hidden world felt. Living Labyrinths:...

Maya Lin speaking at a Berkeley Center for New Media lecture in 2014. Berkeley Center for New Media / CC BY-SA 2.0.A conventional memorial gathers loss into one place. Maya Lin’s What Is Missing? refuses that boundary. It exists through sculptures, temporary media...

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How Plastic Pollution is Killing Our Planet and What We Can Do to Save It. by Tracey Chaykin. Although convenient, plastic has become a global concern setting off all kinds of alarms. I had yet to learn how big this had become or how far it had reached socially,...

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Water Shortages and Art Supply: An Alarming Connection The world faces a major water crisis with far-reaching implications for the environment and global society. As water resources become increasingly scarce, it is important to examine the impacts of this crisis on...

Investing in creativity: The impact of supporting artists on conservation efforts Supporting artists can be a powerful way to contribute to humanity and environmental conservation. As stewards of creativity, artists have the ability to help build awareness and inspire...