New Talk Recording Available
I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my recent book talk at Pratt Institute (April 21, 2025) is now available online.
In this talk, I explore how artists are responding to climate change, ecology, and social justice, and how these intersections are reshaping contemporary art and cultural narratives.
Thank you to Pratt Institute for hosting the event and to everyone who attended.
▶️ Watch the full recording here: https://talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_fzlcsw4c
Honored to share that my book Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (1993) is featured in Isaac Julien’s new exhibition Isaac Julien: I Dream a World at the de Young Museum (April 12–July 13)
Included as one of the influences on his powerful film True North, the book appears in a display case alongside works exploring race, sexuality, and polar exploration.
Look out for my catalogue essay:
“Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North.”
This is Julien’s first US retrospective and his largest to date—don't miss it!
de Young Museum, SF
April 12–July 13, 2025
Join me at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on Sunday, April 21st, from 5:30–7:00 PM
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or my talk, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic. I’ll be presenting from my book, with a small reception to follow.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required — scan the QR code on the poster to RSVP.
Hope to see you there and feel free to share widely!
Excited to share this wonderful review of my book “Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic” in the College Art Association’s online Book Review section!
“An aesthetic antidote to older ideologies, imagining the poles otherwise... [The book] offers politically thoughtful perspectives from feminist, Black, and Indigenous artists like Anne Noble, Isaac Julien, and Zacharias Kunuk.” – Robert Bailey & Pete Froslie
I have a new article that just came out on open access for a special issue of Arts13, “New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics”
The article is titled “Jewish ‘Ghosts’: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory,” eds., Stacy Schwartz, and Dereck Conrad Murray.
Open access, 2024: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/50
See the foreword that I wrote for an exciting new book that came out recently
See "Foreword.” Communicating Ice Through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jurgens. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. v.
Review by Jenna M. Coughlin, Scandinavian Studies
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom (review)
Jenna M. Coughlin Scandinavian Studies, Volume 95, Number 4, Winter 2023, pp. 540-543 (Article)
Published by University of Illinois Press
“Countering colonial nostalgia and heroic masculinity in the age of accelerated climate change: The Arctic artworks of Katja Aglert and Isaac Julien”
In Moving Image Review & Art Journal, volume 12 (2023), issue 1, pp. 9-21.
I have a new article that just came out in a wonderful new anthology that offers a wide range of perspectives on art since 1980.
“Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene.” A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. Editors, Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson; A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. London: Wiley Blackwell (2023), pp. 227-238
For the table of contents and introduction see: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Companion_to_Contemporary_Art_in_a_Glo/Ci3bEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA3&printsec=frontcover
For purchase. E-Book is available at just $36.99: https://www.wiley.com/en-cn/A+Companion+to+Contemporary+Art+in+a+Global+Framework-p-9781119841807