See Climate Change Through the Lens of Art
Newsweek US|March 03 - 10, 2023 (Double Issue)
What happens when artists reckon with climate change? They visualize the air, sculpt the fluid, recreate a preserved underwater zone and process climate anxiety for us to ponder. Artists creatively grapple with environmental issues in an intimate and poetic way, contemplating the relationship between humans and nature. From colorful murals in Dublin to plastic waste installations in Frankfurt to dew-shaped stainless steel pins in Seoul, here are impactful exhibitions that may offer fresh perspective, some reflections, an alarm-or even some relief.
FAN CHEN
See Climate Change Through the Lens of Art

01 "Art Spot" 
Various Locations
COLUMBUS, OHIO

Red paper cutouts, a hand-embroidered couture gown, walls of flowers or magnolia leaves, lamps made of translucent paper-these are some of the varied, vivid, visual interpretations of climate change issues on display in storefront windows throughout downtown Columbus. This weekend, stroll around the art district and take a few minutes to contemplate the themes being explored-from deforestation to extreme weather to coral bleaching to insects decline. Through June 2023.

02 "The Yanomami Struggle" 
The Shed
NEW YORK CITY

Artists of the Yanomami, one of the largest Indigenous groups living in Amazonia today, are telling their stories of the fight for preserving rainforest and Indigenous rights over the past five decades. A look into more than 80 drawings, alongside Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar's documentation of the Yanomami struggle, will offer a new perspective on climate justice and thoughts on how art can connect with environmental activism. Through April 16.

03 "Tomorrows"
Museu do Amanhã
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

"We will live longer, but how?" asks The Museum of Tomorrow, also known as the museum of questions. The answer may lie in the interactive section where visitors play the Civilizations game; here, the fate of a virtual civilization is in the hands of four players. Structured in five partsCosmos, Earth, Anthropocene, Tomorrows, and Us-the exhibition projects possible scenarios in the next 50 years as a result of climate change and human activities. On permanent display.

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