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Pope Leo XIVanalysis

Robert Francis Prevost has been elected Pope Leo XIV—why does this matter to the worlds of art and heritage?

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and architecture treasures of the Vatican—has publicly supported his predecessor Pope Francis's lead on climate change

How can art fairs become greener?

Tight timelines for set-up, shipping and deinstallation, plus often extensive travel for staff and clients, make the sector stubbornly unsustainable

Comment | Art world attitudes towards the climate emergency are changing, but the time to secure a viable future is now

After three years spent critiquing the art world's response to the climate crisis for this column, Louisa Buck takes stock of what's been achieved—and what remains to be done

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Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

‘We’re looking at the climate crisis because it’s here and now and affecting us daily’: inside Art Jameel’s push for sustainability and industry-wide change

The independent organisation is centring climate-conscious decisions across its operations and conducting research to advocate for looser conservation standards

Climate activist found guilty of ‘defacing’ Degas sculpture at US National Gallery of Art

A Trump executive order aimed at cracking down on vandalism in Washington, DC has turned up the heat on climate protests

Former Tate chief appointed inaugural chair of Gallery Climate Coalition

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment

Los Angeles wildfires put museum-lender relationships in spotlight

As fires approached the Getty and Norton Simon Museum campuses in early January, those museums’ leaders called far-away lenders to reassure them that their art was safe

This Devon exhibition explores why, when it comes to the environment, the planetary is not at odds with the local

A racial justice activist by trade, Ashish Ghadiali's show at Thelma Hulbert Gallery is his first as an artist

‘Ravaging shared heritage’: South Korea wildfires destroy ancient temple and threaten Unesco site

At least 28 people have died in the fires, which are now the country's worst ever natural fire disaster

Massachusetts museum presents an artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier

Ohan Breiding’s experimental film and photography, on view at Mass Moca, pay homage to the disappearing Rhône Glacier in Switzerland

British Museum and Science Museum under increasing pressure to scrap BP sponsorship after oil giant drops climate targets

The pair are the last two major cultural institutions taking funding from fossil fuel companies

Comment | Somerset House’s soil-themed exhibition shows the importance of being down to earth

The London institution’s new show features a variety of works that emphasise the wonder and critical importance of dirt

Artists and scientists join forces for Finland climate crisis project

Climate Clock will see a permanent public art trail installed in the city of Oulu

New heritage body will use AI tools to help protect key sites from war and environmental crises

HeritageWatch.AI aims to provide real-time data, based on analysis of satellite imagery, to plan and deploy effective disaster management

Luma Foundation’s burgeoning ‘biennial of the Alps’ is excellent—but who is it for?

The sixth edition of Elevation 1049 brings work addressing some of the great crises of the moment to a remote billionaire’s paradise

Comment | How technology can help the art world take a big step towards sustainability

A new report published by the virtual reality platform Vortic makes clear the environmental benefits of going digital—and a hybrid approach could a way forward in the short term

New Orleans triennial positions the city as a model for a precarious, adaptive future

The sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans, co-curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, finds artists looking to the distant past, urgent present and possible futures for archetypes of resilience

Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change

Photographyinterview

Cristina Mittermeier: ‘It is now or never’ to address climate change

This pioneer in conservation photography combines her passion and skill to capture our planet’s fragility

Comment | Why seeing art by train should be the next big thing

Flying to an exhibition is increasingly unjustifiable. But by choosing the train, visitors can enjoy endless, inspiring encounters with art and life

New York’s Climate Museum secures permanent location

The new, 24,000 sq. ft museum will be part of a recently announced $1.35bn mixed-use development near Hudson Yards

Seeds of hope: artist Anya Gallaccio’s Margate retrospective is a reminder of how life always finds a way

The show at Turner Contemporary features works made from organic materials that rot, wither and stink—but there is new growth being fostered too

Museums turn to consultants to help them go green

Climate experts are helping museums, to create systemic change

Climate activists who dumped red powder on US Constitution at National Archives sentenced to prison

Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art

Controversial Science Museum sponsor charged in US over alleged bribery scheme

Gautam Adani—who lends his name to the museum's Adani Green Energy Gallery—was indicted in New York on charges including securities fraud

Three climate activists charged following Stonehenge paint protest

The members of Just Stop Oil are set to appear in court next month

From snail-trail paintings to beaver-chewed sculptures: Castello di Rivoli’s new exhibition shows what’s possible when mankind and nature join forces

Mutual Aid, recently opened at the Turin museum, is devoted to work humans have made in collaboration with other species

Cop29news

A slither of hope: ‘artivists’ bring colour and snake-themed protest to Cop29

The Artivist Network organised a range of actions at the summit that both highlighted the serious costs of climate breakdown and interrupted what can be a drab visual environment