A Fossil Museum Uses the Past to Reimagine Climate’s Future – The New York Times
As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change.
“How we present this information in a way it can help communities is a challenge,” she said. “If you go too far in the hope direction, it goes against the science. But we need to bring people in.” – Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga
Interview: Manufactured Beauty and Default Photographs – Lens Culture
“I want to immerse the viewer within the daily happenings of the environment I am depicting. It might not always be flooded, but you see the indicators of fragility and vulnerability… It’s important that people learn to read and interpret all types of images for themselves, rather than relying on a National Geographic report.” – Anastasia Samoylova
Patagonia Films: Newtok – Losing ground to climate change, this Alaskan community resolves to save itself
To keep their culture and community intact, the 360 Yup’ik residents must relocate their entire village to stable ground upriver … In moving their village, they will become some of America’s first climate change refugees. This is a film of a village seeking justice in the face of climate disaster…
Interview | American artist Jim Denevan on his ephemeral earthworks – The Art Newspaper
The California-based artist Jim Denevan has created unfathomably symmetrical ephemeral “paintings” on the sand since the mid-1990s, using a stick or rake to draw sometimes miles-long geometric and Fibonacci-inspired compositions.