Shifting Shorelines
Shifting Shorelines
Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry along the Hudson estuary.
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Wallach Art Gallery
October 05, 2024 to January 12, 2025
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Exhibition Details

Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry along the Hudson estuary.

Additional Details

Focusing on the river’s edges from Albany southward to its flow into the Atlantic Ocean, the exhibition foregrounds the impact of local industry on the natural environment, highlighting the history of the river's distinctive ecological features such as brackish and salt marshes, mudflats, and beaches, along with the docks, factories, and buildings that crowded them out.

Location

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

Image: Gifford Beal, “Freight Yards” 1915. Oil on canvas. / courtesy of Wallach Art Gallery