Mexico City says goodbye to American painter Kathleen Clement, who spent six decades documenting Mexico’s natural world

The headline marks a cultural loss, but the strategic implication is the closing of a unique, 60-year environmental ledger. Clement’s work, which “celebrated and mourned” the natural world, serves as an irreplaceable visual baseline of ecological change in the Valley of Mexico. The question now is how this artistic archive will be leveraged to shape the country’s future environmental narrative.