Galleries
Every issue includes beautiful artwork selected by the director of cultural programs at the National Academies. 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.
Fall 2018: The Future of Work
William Utermohlen
William Utermohlen was born in south Philadelphia in 1933. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1951 to 1957 and on the G.I. bill at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, England, from 1957 to 1958. View GallerySpring 2017: Climate Engineering
Glass Microbiology
Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary arts practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, and live artworks. He lives in the United Kingdom and creates work across the globe. Glass Microbiology is a collection of glass models of human viruses. View GalleryWinter 2017: The Energy Transition
Fashion, Animal, Sound
The images in Steve Miller’s Fashion, Animal, Sound series are all X-rays. He began experimenting with the technology decades ago because it enabled him to re-invent the notion of a portrait by looking beyond the surface and beneath the flesh, and he later extended it to other life forms and inanimate objects. View GalleryFall 2016: The Criminalization of Immigration
Chirality
Matthew Shlian is an artist and designer working in paper. He uses the traditions of origami, kirigami, and paper engineering to transform flat materials into 3D sculptures and he applies his experience in collaborative research with scientists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. View GallerySummer 2016: A New Global Environment for Space Policy
Detroit Industry Murals
The Detroit Industry murals by prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera pay tribute to Detroit’s manufacturing base and labor force. In the first half of the twentieth century, Detroit was the center of America’s most important industry—automobile manufacturing—and it was a symbol of modernity and the power of labor and capitalism. View Gallery
Cassini Mission to Saturn
The Cassini mission to Saturn is a joint endeavor of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency, and the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. Cassini is a sophisticated robotic spacecraft orbiting the ringed planet and studying the Saturnian system in detail. View GallerySpring 2016: Summit on Human Gene Editing
