climate change effect on public art

Simone Leigh's towering, 24-foot-high bronze sculpture Satellite sits outside at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Bronze Sculpture Satellite

Museum directors and conservators describe taking increasingly proactive measures to protect public art from climate change, including hiring climate-savvy engineers to design installation foundations and asking artists working on site-specific works to provide wind-load calculations.

climate change effect on public art