![]() (These essays can also be accessed through the exhibition’s digital resource.) Without being overly didactic, each pairing encourages dialogue, albeit delicately, around such subject matter as melting ice caps, combustible trees, and climate refugees. Each writer offers their expertise, if not poetic take, in the form of a micro essay located next to the work. Split into two parts, the first portion of the exhibition pairs ten writers-scientists, journalists, a novelist-with ten contemporary artworks. Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York. Cannupa Hanska Luger, Future Ancestral Technologies: New Myth, 2021 Single channel HD video, 5:59. Yet If the Sky Were Orange is not so much a political statement as it is a holistic approach. Not purple, but point taken.Īn exhibition about climate change in a museum in Texas seems especially opportune given the Lone Star State’s leading role in both extractive industries and renewable energy. Aaron Morse’s Cloud World (#3) (2014), features a fiery sputter of sky over a restless ocean. The scientist replied that if the carbon dioxide accumulating in the Earth’s atmosphere were purple rather than invisible, people would care.Ī large and vaguely apocalyptic painting installed at the gallery entrance seconds that notion. Goodell writes in the show’s introductory text that he had asked a scientist onboard what it would take for people to care about rising global temperatures. He was recalling a conversation from fifteen years earlier while sailing on a scientific vessel in the North Atlantic. If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change is no longer a hypothetical after the wildfires in Nova Scotia this past summer cast a tawny haze over New York City and elsewhere.īut the exhibition’s guest curator, journalist Jeff Goodell, author of the recently published The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, wasn’t trying to make a prediction. If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Changeīlanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Portia Hein and Philip Martin, 2015.34, Copyright Aaron Morse. If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change looks at global warming with a right brain/left brain lineup of scientists, journalists, and artists.Īaron Morse, Cloud World (#3), 2014, acrylic on canvas, 89 x 118 in.
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