When:
October 5, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – January 12, 2025 @ 6:00 pm America/New York Timezone
2024-10-05T12:00:00-04:00
2025-01-12T18:00:00-05:00
Where:
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
615 West 129th Street New York
NY 10027
Cost:
Free

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. 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. Through visual and material evidence, Shifting Shorelines demonstrates the various cycles of exploitation, damage, and reclamation.