A new angle on art

The Leopold Museum in Vienna tilts its paintings in aid of climate change to show that a few degrees makes a difference.

кем Maud Largeaud , AdForum

You wouldn’t expect Vienna’s Leopold Museum and Austria’s Climate Change Center to be obvious partners, but they recently created an event together. Visitors to the art museum were surprised to find landscape paintings by Courbet, Klimt and other legendary artists slightly askew. But in fact they were intentionally tilted in accordance with the number of degrees temperatures may rise in the places they depict. The message: yes, only a few degrees can be very uncomfortable indeed.