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From the first permanent climate art exhibit onboard a polar-expedition ship to a live opera on a climate-disaster fa...

From the first permanent climate art exhibit onboard a polar expedition ship to a live opera on a climate disaster faux beach, these works of art create a sense of urgency around our climate crisis.

The Noospheric Society (2021). Courtesy the artist. Angelo Plessas was doing plank pose in the narrow space between the foot of his bed and the hotel wall. Several of his quilted sculptures were spread out beneath him to soften the hard floor. Hotel staff dropped off warm meals several times a day. “It is sort of like a residency,” the Greek artist told me over a WhatsApp call on day seven of his 14-day quarantine in an 18-square-meter room in Seoul. (The artist had been uploading the footage to Instagram as a kind of performative ritual.) Following his stay, Plessas planned to head to a ...

Books, Netflix, and National Theatre live were three of the pillars supporting my sanity this year. As it draws to a close, we must remember that there was lots of good stuff in 2020 and much of it came from the arts. Whether it was a new novel from Maggie O'Farrell or William Boyd, Gillian Anderson (as powerful in Streetcar as she was in The Crown), or The Queen's Gambit, they brought comfort and joy. Our erudite quiz setter Alison Walsh has looked back at the strange year that was 2020 and devised a compelling test of artistic knowledge. So take time out from trimming the tree and see how ...