Christine Borland looks at one of the oldest known forms of fabric in the world.
Author Archives: Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent art writer and editor based in London. She is particularly interested in sculpture, women's art, and the environment.
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Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique
A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible.
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Veronica Ryan’s Botanical Musings on Migration
For the Montserrat-born artist, seeds are both a metaphor for and a physical continuation of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
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Spilled Milk and Other Acts of Protest Visualize the Politics of Food Production
Inspired by the farmers’ protests Rafael Pérez Evans witnessed as a child in Spain, the works in Handful draw attention to the deliberate wedges driven between producer and consumer.
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“Salmon” Pink and Other Relics of Pre-Industrial Agriculture
As the Turner Prize-nominated duo Cooking Sections forcefully reveals, it’s not just salmon that are changing color due to harmful agricultural techniques.
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An Invitation to Get Caught in the Spider’s Web
Tomás Saraceno’s retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi gives a closer look at the lives and creations of spiders to reveal how completely ecologies are entangled and spaces are shared with our nonhuman companions.
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Artists, Writers, Musicians, and More Explore the Intersections of Art and Ecology
After the pandemic pushed back their exhibition, two curators teamed up to develop The Botanical Mind Online a new platform that makes effective use of parallels between plant communication and the internet.
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Joana Vasconcelos’s Bold, Feminist Sculptures Pop Against an English Landscape
Deliberately unsubtle, the central message of Vasconcelos’s work challenges the snobbery of the art world and champions the inclusion of women and outsiders.
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Artists, Designers, and Activists Address Climate Breakdown in a Pop-Up Exhibition
Depictions of Living imagines itself as an act of protest, touching on both the microcosm of individual actions and the macrocosm of the Anthropocene.
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Joy Labinjo’s Dynamic Process in Painting Her Family
Joy Labinjo’s intimate family portraits are based on her archive of photographs, as well as Instagram and Flickr, straddling online and offline worlds and forging links between past and present.
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Technological Invention Is Not Necessarily the Answer to a Sustainable Future
An exhibition at the Royal Academy suggests that technology is our main hope for a better future, generally ignoring the current discourse around natural climate solutions.
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Creating Soundscapes From the Whispering, Bubbling, and Roaring Earth
Now on view at Art Basel Miami Beach, sound artist Jana Winderen’s The Art of Listening: Under Water draws listeners’ attention to the rich sonic landscapes of nature — and highlights how human activity might affect them.