Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Galleries

Every issue includes artwork selected by the office of Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS). Artists included in the pages of the magazine grapple with many of the same topics discussed by our authors—climate change, big data, genetics, and surveillance, to name a few—in thoughtful, visually compelling ways.