October 2022 Issue: Fear (Digital Edition)

For Every City a Sculpture Sculpture Milwaukee tackles the Natural World "Below a thirty-story office building in downtown Milwaukee, a fountain in the adjacent sunken courtyard is turned off. In place of water, a ripple of rock fills the emptied basin. Resembling the quiet passage of waves, the gravel bed proceeds in uniform crests and troughs oriented at a diagonal. These pebble swells are not the consequence of rough winds, or the pull of the sun or the moon, but the sculpting of human hands. Conceived by acclaimed architect and artist Maya Lin, the installation, "Courtyard Sea" (2022), revives her preoccupation with billowing artificial topographies." (Alexandra Drexelrius) Fear When Humans Ruled the Earth The Inevitability of Mass Extinction "In the hierarchy of things that keep people awake at night, mass extinction may not rank very high. There are immediate calamities to contemplate: job loss, illness, broken relationships and all the other reefs upon which we so frequently s