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Urban Ecological Consciousness at Wave Hill
By providing more information than viewers might process, the show's dense, small-font text highlights an aesthetic challenge that confronts social practice art.
Brandon Ballengée
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Artistic Encounters with Our Toxic Waters
On a light gray day last October, I donned a pair of oversize galoshes and life jacket, picked up a paddle, climbed into a rowboat, and set out on Newtown Creek.
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Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show
The animals have gone missing from booth 844. Framed nature prints crowd the holly walls, but the auks, cougars, wolves, and woodpeckers that were once their subjects have been cut out, leaving blank spaces behind in a sort of artistic animal Rapture.
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Eco-Art and the Battle of Invisible Evidence
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April 2010, an estimated 172 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst petroleum-industry spill in U.S. history. The stories and images of crude oil reaching the coastlines of the Gulf States were appalling — pelica