Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment

Chris Burden, Wexner Castle, 1990. Addition of crenels and merlons to existing Peter Eisenman–designed building. © Chris Burden/Licensed by The Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Image description: Exterior view of a postmodern building with deconstructed red brick sections that include crenellations on the top recalling a castle. The building has white scaffolding to the right, and the foreground includes a partial view of a curved, fragmented amphitheater with sloping grass behind it.

Baseera Khan, installation view of Baseera Khan: snake skin at Simone Subal Gallery, New York, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery. Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Image description: Three sculptures on display at a gallery. They are round and flat sections of a fluted column. One section is propped up by another that lays flat on the ground. The third sculpture stands on its side in the far corner of the room. The outer edges of each work are wrapped with collaged silk rugs with multicolored floral patterns.

Raqs Media Collective, Let the Future Praise Us (2), 2018. Text and gold foil print on hand-woven dhurrie, 57 7/8 x 34 7/8 in. Image courtesy of the artists and Frith Street Gallery, London. Photo: Sebastian Pellion di Persano.

Image description: A dhurrie rug hanging from a silver rod. The rug's colors are rich red, navy blue, green, and muted orange tones. The words “PROVISIONS FOR EVERYBODY” are printed in gold foil on the top half of the carpet, with printed gold tassels cascading down from the ends of the text.

Jacolby Satterwhite, Throne, 2019. LED, plexiglass, silicone, velvet chairs and plastic plants with Domestika, 2017. HD virtual reality color video with sound. Installation view of Room for Living at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 2019. Courtesy of the artist; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Morán Morán, Los Angeles; and Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.

Image description: Dimly lit room with two people seated in black swivel chairs, holding VR headsets covering their eyes. There are potted palm plants on a black area rug on the floor that sit in between two people, and the wall behind has an LED sculpture mounted on plexiglass that says “Throne.”

Sable Elyse Smith, Landscape II, 2017. Neon, 16 x 108 in. Collection of Antonia Josten. Image courtesy of the artist; JTT, New York; and Carlos Ishikawa, London.

Image description: White neon text glowing against wall reads "Planking or the lying down game" and hovers above a single thin yellow neon line. Electric cords trail down from the sculpture to black transformers on the floor.

Constantina Zavitsanos, L&D Motel, 2019. Installation view at Participant Inc., New York. Image courtesy Participant Inc. Photo: Mark Waldhauser.

Image description: A gallery space is darkened, with black walls, wooden floor, and red light. White open captions are projected dimly onto the left wall. A wooden ramp curls up the back wall. Two people are midway up the ramp; the person on the right reclines vertically with arms behind their head, and the person on the left sits upright facing their friend. Two corridors flank the back wall. A soft red glow fills the space behind the back wall.