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Learn MoreAugust 19 - December 12, 2023
In Ripin Gallery
August 19 - December 12, 2023
In Ripin Gallery
Stemming from a new collaboration between Oberlin College and the United Nations, this exhibition from the Allen’s permanent collection addresses more than a century of the human impact on Earth as recorded in art. It moves from the industrial revolution and depictions of smog in Impressionist painting, through the 20th century and into the present—encompassing Land Art and a wide range of photography and printmaking.
Themes of water, industry, landscape, sustainability, and Indigenous knowledge guide this presentation, moving away from moral judgments, and thinking imaginatively instead of defensively about climate change. The exhibition includes works by Ansel Adams, Laura Aguilar, Margaret Bourke-White, Agnes Denes, Jeffrey Gibson, Roni Horn, Camille Pissarro, Robert Smithson, and Joseph Yoakum, among others.
Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
OC 2023
November 2, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.
What is the history of museums as activist institutions? Are art museums implicated in the climate crisis? Why have they become po...
November 15, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Professor of Studio Art and Photography, and R Kauff, Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing and Reproducible Me...
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