The Strange Erasures in an Art Show About Planetary Crisis

A review of Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity at Whatcom Museum in Bellingham.by Katie KurtzA deep-brown buffalo stands alone on a green grass plain, against a background of anonymous hills and a setting sun. Its tail forms a kind of question mark. It's hard not to anthro pomorphize the buffalo's gaze as beseeching the viewer to save it from extinction. This interpretation isn't too far-fetched, as George Catlin painted it (and titled it Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the P