Books
John Cage, Forager of Music and Mushrooms
No matter how much one knows about the artist or mycology, John Cage: A Mycological Foray surprises with its ode to continuous wonder.
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Art
When Fire Becomes Another Word for Revolution
At the Palais de Tokyo, Our World is Burning allows 30 artists to express the dream and necessity of a sustainable future in an egalitarian world.
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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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Live Blogging Discussions of Community Engagement, Environmentalism, and Social Practice
Check out Hyperallergic’s live report of day two of the Common Field Convening.
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Pitting Environmental Preservation Against Historic Charm
Strict historic preservation codes often favor aesthetic interests over energy-saving initiatives like solar panels — but the material and financial considerations play a part, too.
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Digital Meditations on Water
Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow reveal water’s unearthliness.
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Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.
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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.
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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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Nature Offers the Best Designs at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial
Objects on display designed to be green substitutes for those that are ecologically harmful or failing are among the most thought-provoking in this exhibition.
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Agnes Denes's Future Imperfect
Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes's art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today.
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A Greenhouse for Extinct Flora
Michael Wang’s installation resembles an assisted living facility for plants.