Wildfire Ash as a Medium

Meet the artists who use ash and residue from natural disasters to send an urgent message about the environmental calamity unfolding before us.

You Can’t Coat the Holocaust With Gold

Anselm Kiefer’s philosophy has its roots in German Romanticism, particularly the belief that the artist can mediate between the creative and the divine, between earth and heaven.

Required Reading

This week, news outlets flock to TikTok, New York Times staff strikes, the problem with the phrase “late-term abortion,” and was the North Pole once a forest?