MoMA opens solo shows by Peggy Weil and Elizabeth Murray

Core Memory brings together, for the first time, 88 Cores and 18 Cores, two of Peggy Weil’s visualizations of Earth’s climatic histories. A pioneer of digital portraiture, Weil has recently turned her attention to what she calls Extended Landscapes: portraits of the invisible layers “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” Her work opens a window onto the planet as a recording device, revealing how climatic and geological events are inscribed into polar ice sheets and sedimentary strata. From the youngest snow to the oldest ice, 88 Cores descends two miles and 110,000 years through Greenland’s ice sheet. Unlike tree rings, which grow concentrically, ice preserves time vertically. Each annual layer of snow compacted into ice carries bubbles of air and gases. The inscriptions and distinct shades