Connected
In its dark way, the pandemic affirms Darwin’s point about the elemental connectivity of life, for good and ill.
Karl Kusserow is John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. He is author and editor of five books, most recently Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment (with Alan C. Braddock, 2018), which won PROSE, Alfred H. Barr Jr, and Association of Art Museum Curators awards, and the forthcoming Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective (2020).
In its dark way, the pandemic affirms Darwin’s point about the elemental connectivity of life, for good and ill.