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‘Human activity on a massive scale’: a photo exhibition tackles the climate crisis

The word anthropocene has been proposed to denote an ongoing epoch in which human activity is a primary driving force of geological change. Although the word has caught on like wildfire in a colloquial sense, it was ultimately rejected as a descriptive scientific term, not so much because it was inaccurate but because of disagreements over when exactly it would have started – 1945, marking the unlocking of nuclear power; 1610, which may be the first time human activity affected the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; 1964, when the so-called Great Acceleration may have begun – or some...

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

The conceit of “Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene” is that as humans have come to recognize their responsibility as agents in transforming the equilibriums of our planet, photography has come to enjoy a privileged role in picturing that transformation.

Cantor Arts Center’s new exhibit gets a handle on unique pieces from the permanent collection

Consider the humble handle. Most likely you don’t consider it, but you do use one every time you drink a cup of coffee, lift a suitcase or open a cabinet. The German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote an entire treatise, “The Handle,” in 1911, calling attention to the fact that it is both a functional and aesthetic object.