Reading Time: 5 minutesSnow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?
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Plant Blindness and “Seeing” Vegetal Timescales
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhat is the concept of “plant blindness”? How can the arts help us to appreciate different timescales and plants’ ways of being?
John Sloan’s ‘Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue,’ and the Environmental Implications of Industrialized New York City
Reading Time: 6 minutesAmerican painting has continuously investigated the relationship between the citizens of the United States and their natural landscape.
Sensing Fog
Reading Time: 5 minutesAn artificial fog regularly envelops the bridge connecting piers 15 and 17 in the San Francisco harbor. Fujiko Nakaya, an artist known for her many fog sculptures, installed Fog Bridge #72494 in 2013, when it was launched with the reopening of the Exploratorium science museum.