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A couple of years ago a new street art campaign rolled out in Manhattan. The mural series is being commissioned by the National Audubon Society to bring awareness to the risk climate change poses to both birds and people. https://www.audubon.org/amp ▲ Cerulean Warbler by Tom Sanford (601 W. 149th St., New York, NY 10031) The hundreds of species of North American birds (314 to be precise) are climate-threatened or endangered. The scientists found that climate change will threaten the existence of 389 bird species — two-thirds of all North American birds — and that no bird will escape the impacts of related...

Piet MONDRIAN (1872–1944) was a Dutch painter who worked in the Netherlands, in Paris, in London, and finally in New York. He is famous for his abstract and non-figurative paintings. His early works were mostly traditional landscapes and from 1908 there was an influence of symbolism. While experimenting, Mondrian made his works more abstract, first in a cubist tradition, later in his own unique style. He adopted a restricted set of colors, sometimes soft pastels, eventually only red, yellow, and blue, next to black, white, and sometimes grey. Between 1918 and 1940 he made many paintings of the kind for...