Art and the environment

Both man-made and natural changes to the environment are important subjects in art's history.

How Climate Changes Art

By The Art Assignment

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Entropy and environment at Smithson's Spiral Jetty

Entropy and environment at <em>Spiral Jetty</em>

By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker

Drought and rain govern when this work of art in Utah’s Great Salt Lake can be seen.

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Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage

By Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, Dr. Steven Zucker

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Saving Venice

By Dr. Steven Zucker, Lisa Ackerman

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Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands

By Dr. Jenny Newell, Dr. Steven Zucker

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Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe

By Dr. Billie Lythberg

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Mogao caves at Dunhuang

By Dr. Jennifer N. McIntire

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Endangered coastlines and lifeways

By Courtney M. Leonard, Dr. Beth Harris

A Shinnecock artist's view

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Framing the American Dream

By Dr. Steven Zucker, Elizabeth Gerber, LACMA

Building the American dream in the California desert.

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The battle for National Parks

By Dr. Beth Harris, Erin Monroe, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Captured here in paint, this grand Californian landscape would soon disappear under water.

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The landscape remade

By Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Dr. Steven Zucker

Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?

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A breath of fresh air, NYC’s Central Park

By Dr. Paul A. Ranogajec

To bring “polite sociability” to the city, designers blended nature’s greatest hits into one ambitious park.

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