
Michal Wang’s installation Extinct in New York, 2019, at the LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, New York.
Michal Wang’s installation Extinct in New York, 2019, at the LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, New York.
Michael Wang: DANH VO, We The People, 2010–13, 2016, plaster and metallic pigment, 8 by 8 by 8 inches; 84.01 tons CO2 removed from the atmosphere. Right, JEFF KOONS, Diamond (Blue), 2005-06, 2012, colored pencil on paper, 3½ by 3½ by 3½ inches; 84.01 tons CO2 removed from the atmosphere; from the series “Carbon Copy.”
Michael Wang: JEFF KOONS, Diamond (Blue), 2005-06, 2012, colored pencil on paper, 3½ by 3½ by 3½ inches; 84.01 tons CO2 removed from the atmosphere; from the series “Carbon Copy.”
Average June-July-August downward energy flux (colors) and surface winds (arrows), 1979–2011. Redder regions document where the ocean is taking up heat and bluer regions where the ocean is emitting heat to the atmosphere.
Total cloud cover on January 14, 2010, as measured by NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) experiment. White colors indicate regions of 100% cloud cover.
Achatinella fulgens (land snails) at the Snail Extinction Prevention Program in O’ahu, Hawaii.
Plants being grown in captivity in Iglesia de San Pedro, Tenerife, Spain; from Michael Wang’s project Extinct in the Wild, 2017–.
Barranco Tamadaya in Tenerife, Spain, a former habitat of Lotus berthelotii (Parrot’s Beak perennials); from Michael Wang’s project Extinct in the Wild, 2017–.