Humane Ecology at the Clark Art Institute asks viewers to consider different interpretations of nature, including those of people who have been marginalized, silenced, and erased.
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What Good Is Eco-Art Without Community?
The question asked by some working-class communities in New York City regarding environmental art projects is, “Okay, but what about the people?”
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Seeking Histories and Futures in Soil
Today’s artists often refrain from imprinting their vision upon the land, instead bringing the soil into the gallery as an archive of nature-human interactions.
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Jean Shin Wants to Change the Tide of Pollution and Extinction
The artist’s Freshwater installation at Philadelphia Contemporary features a living, breathing fountain, mussels and all.
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NYC Exhibition Invites Viewers to Go for a Nap
For all its quirks, Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble’s immersive elements never feel gimmicky.
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Ecological Art Infused by Memoir and Identity
Gyun Hur’s and Shoshanna Weinberger’s installations emphasize poetic innuendo rather than overt autobiography.
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Art That Goes With the Floe
Works by 10 artists have been installed on an ice floe in arctic Sweden where they will remain until the ice melts and they sink into the sea.
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Zac Skinner’s Survivalist Sculptures
Skinner imagines the jury-rigged technology that would enable survival in the wake of apocalyptic climate disaster.
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Kiyan Williams Digs Into the Meaning of Soil
In her film on view at the Shed, the artist explores dirt’s unsettling aesthetic effects, as well as its conceptual resonances.
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Take a Virtual Nature Walk at Wave Hill
The cultural center has successfully reimagined an exhibition to better suit an online presentation.
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Activist Art With a Personal Touch
Songs in the Dark offers socially engaged vignettes on issues that are of clear personal importance to their makers, some of whom are activists outside of the art world as well.
