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Thomas Cole's landscape painting

Reexamining the Wilderness Aesthetic

What’s missing from Cole’s environmentalism is the idea of justice
Indigenous American climate justice activist Xiye Bastida shouts into a megaphone in front of a large-scale protest

The Importance of Reciprocity

Climate justice activist Xiye Bastida’s perspectives are brought to bear on Thomas Cole’s iconic landscape painting The Oxbow.

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A small bronze sculpture of a seated boy pulling a thorn from the bottom of his foot appears set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.

Spinario’s Thorn

Brown and beige fragment of a floor mosaic with a brown-skinned woman with curly brown hair, a headpiece, and earrings set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.

The Personification of Ktisis

Detail of a Honus Wagner baseball card, showing his face against an orange background, with a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape behind the figure in the background

Baseball Card Collecting’s “Holy Grail”

An ancient Egyptian seated statue of Hatshepsut in limestone, with a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape behind the figure in the background

The King Herself