The Denver Art Museum has announced the inaugural James Balog Earth Vision Awards (JBEVA), a new biennial photography award supporting artists from around the world whose work explores environmental change and humanity's relationship with the natural world. Endowed by renowned environmental photographer James Balog and a circle of dedicated donors, the awards includes a $40,000 First Prize and a $25,000 Finalist Prize, with selected works by the winners joining the Denver Art Museum's photography collection. Applications are being accepted through Oct. 1; winners will be announced in January 2027.

  While the illustrator Brad Holland may not be a household name, you could say that if anyone represented the power of illustration to provoke, over the past half century, it would be this artist. Entirely self-taught, he worked his way up from studio rat, sweeping floors in a Chicago tattoo parlor to being one of the first in The New York Times’ roster of artists for its new Op Ed page, in 1970. The Watergate scandal offered the kind of material that excited Holland’s concept...