Please note that the top four exhibits are part of "Art and Science Collide," an enormous regional collaboration in Southern California called Pacific Standard Time (PST Art), which was initiated in 2011 and is in its third iteration.
As noted on SA-N's homepage, it's this fall's largest collaborative effort in the US and features some 60 art institutions, including 20 presenting exhibitions on climate change.
The Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis
Sept. 14, 2024–Jan. 6, 2025
The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108 |
“Storm Cloud” analyzes the impact of industrialization and a globalized economy on everyday life from 1780 to 1930, as charted by scientists, artists, and writers, and contextualizes the current climate crisis within this historical framework.
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traces the rise of environmental awareness in the 19th century—an age of rapid industrialization in the English-speaking world as well as a period in which the sciences of geology, paleontology, meteorology, and ecology developed.
Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology
Dec 21, 2024–Aug 2, 2025
Charles White Elementary School Gallery
2401 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, WESTLAKE, LOS ANGELES
From its beginnings in the late 1800s, photography has idealized the natural world. Photography elevated the pristine environment, evoking the sublime and motivating the protection of natural beauty. Simultaneously, photographic land surveys acted as guides on how to exploit nature, whether through infrastructure, extraction, or armed forces, determining who was displaced. In the Anthropocene—the current geological age in which human activity has been the dominant influence on the environment—lens-based artists are imaging an even more rapidly changing ecology. In Nature on Notice, more than 20 artists from around the globe engage in a visual dialogue about the “new nature” we are living in. Illuminating the need for both artistic and scientific imagination to counter threats to our ecology, these makers speak sensitively to the changes they are witnessing or, as a counterpoint, refer to cultures that have long revered nature while most of the world has steadily consumed it.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
REFRAMING DIORAMAS: THE ART OF PRESERVING WILDERNESS
Sept 15, 2024–Sept 14, 2025
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
STATE DRIVE, EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES
The Natural History Museum’s historic diorama halls are the largest exhibitions at the museum, showcasing over 75 incredibly detailed habitats ranging from arctic tundra to tropical rainforest. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the dioramas, NHM is restoring and reopening a diorama hall that has been closed for decades. There, visitors experience immersive new installations that call attention to dioramas as a unique combination of art and science and explore biodiversity, ecology, conservation, colonialism, and changing museum display techniques. NHM maintains an active diorama program where staff continue to update and build dioramas, keeping this art form alive. Visitors can examine these illusions of wilderness through a series of displays, engaging programs, and a new book that sheds light on the previously untold history of NHM’s dioramas.
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice
SEP 14, 2024 – JAN 5, 2025
The Hammer Museum at UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Part of Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Hammer presents Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, organized by guest co-curators Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake. The exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. Breath(e) features works by more than 20 artists, including works by Mel Chin, Ron Finley, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Garnett Puett, and Lan Tuazon, commissioned specially for this exhibition.
Breath(e) was conceived during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic and America’s racial reckoning in 2020, and as such explores pressing issues related to the ethics of climate justice, while proposing pragmatic and philosophical approaches to spur discussion and resolution. The exhibition strives to challenge and deconstruct polarized political attitudes surrounding climate justice in America and offers new perspectives around land and indigenous rights of nature.
Society of Animal Artists: Art and the Animal
August 31, 2024- November 30, 2024
Sioux City Public Museum
6
07 4th Street Sioux City, IA 51101
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