A look at landscapes in SAAM’s collection and the wildlife that lives beyond the paintings Brynn Garner De Lancey Gill, Mouth of James Creek, n.d., oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1989 ...

The two women portrayed in the moody French 19th-century lithograph “The Laundresses” got swept up in political currents as murky, fast-moving and deceptive as the Seine River in which they washed ...

Like most students at Stanford, I hadn’t heard of environmental justice before arriving here. I was passionate about ecology and conservation, areas I thought lay clearly separated from social change.

Making climate change and global warming his main topic, the Icelandic–Danish artist, employs natural elements in his works — and a good understanding of how we function. Olafur Eliasson, Straight ...

When the Irish statesman Edmund Burke first described the sensation of “tranquillity tinged with terror”, he was not characterizing our present-day reality, in which environmental crisis is met with ...

Many of us are aware of the environmental crisis, and the need to change how we operate. On a daily basis, a variety of media offer images that depict the effects of climate change to help us ...

They don’t care about the human cost or environmental impact of their work. A few benevolent souls like Futurefarmers and Mel Chin have a lower impact, but there seem to be many more Matthew Barneys ...