Explore "How the World Became Natural" with Nigel Cooke

Our latest film offers a close look at Nigel Cooke's evocative, atmospheric new paintings, on view at our New York gallery through July 1. Borrowing its title from paleontologist Loren Eiseley’s 1960 essay describing the evolution of mythic to scientific thinking in the field of natural history, How the World Became Natural spotlights the exhibition's large-scale, horizontal paintings, which meditate on inner life and relationships—the worlds that are all one’s own and the worlds that one shares with other people.