British environmental artist Chris Drury´s art installation Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around created back in July 2011 on the Wyoming university campus, was originally intended to inspire a conversation about a prevalent environmental problem in the region. Global warming has, so scientists say, led to less pine beetles dying off by below zero… Continue reading Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University
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Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof
The Simple Life 28 October–16 December, 2012 – Opening: Saturday, 27 October, 5pm; artist talk with Angela Bulloch 6pm Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof – Tiefe Straße 4, D-29643 Neuenkirchen (Germany) With: Angela Bulloch, Josephine Meckseper, Shana Moulton, Simon Starling and winners of the Daniel Frese Prize 2012 Fabian Reimann and Niko Wolf The exhibition The… Continue reading Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof
ART OF RESILIENCE festival in Latvia starting today
Art+Communication festival From October 4 to November 4, 2012 Riga and Liepaja will be the host cities for the 14th International Festival for New Media Culture “Art+Communication ‘2012”. The “Art+Communication” festival is renowned across Europe for its proposed innovative themes. Each year, the festival gathers around hundred participants from Latvia, Europe and other world countries,… Continue reading ART OF RESILIENCE festival in Latvia starting today
Sideways – Moving On
Upon arrival after a four week journey, the Moving On symposium investigates wayfaring as an artistic and spatial practice. 14-15 September 2012 – De Lieteberg, Zuurbroekstraat 16, 3690 Zutendaal, Belgium Sideways is a translocal, experimental festival for contemporary art and cultural research, exploring non-motorized paths and trails folded into the spaces of everyday life. This… Continue reading Sideways – Moving On
Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude
A NIEA Symposium Saturday, 25 August 2012, 9:30–6:30pm The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists, and scholars to address the issues and activities of… Continue reading Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude
Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art presents its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. The exhibition will run from June 23 to November 4, 2012 in the museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. This year’s exhibition titled Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 is organized by… Continue reading Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
Brandon Ballengée – Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms May 5 – July 31 (extended) 2012 Visual artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée will exhibit sculptural installations and photographs at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in his first major solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition, entitled “Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms”, consists of three bodies… Continue reading Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues, the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia… Continue reading ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo, is on display in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (USA) until April 7, 2012. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists exploring human incursion on the landscape. Through a variety of media, these… Continue reading The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
District of Columbia (USA) March 5 to April 27, 2012 The temporary public art project 5×5 of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities was established in order to result in twenty-five public art installations in different locations in the District of Columbia this spring. Five highly-experienced and innovative contemporary art curators were selected… Continue reading 5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
