How do we consider land-inspired art in an age when huge swaths of our shared world are being clear cut, mined, drilled, and desertified?
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Carolina Caycedo’s Spiritual Fieldwork
Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.
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Karachi Biennale Artists Address Pakistan’s Devastating Floods
Rashid Rana and Amin Rehman trace the roots of the climate crisis back to human mismanagement and the government’s lack of investment.
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Two Artist-Physicians Address the Impacts of Uranium Mining
Chip Thomas and Ken Ogawa are creating sight and sound installations to raise awareness about ecological devastation and injustice.
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The Politics of the Air We Breathe
Inspired by Charles Babbage’s idea of air as “atmospheric memory,” In the Air considers air as a common space that belongs to and affects the whole of humanity.
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In Salt Lake City, Air Is a Concern and an Artistic Medium
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents artworks that make visible the quality and inequality of what we breathe.
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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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Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment
From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies.
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Duke Riley’s Burlesque Spin on the Trappings of Museum Display and Folk Art
Riley’s nautical-themed exhibition brims with antic details that constitute a feat of serious world-building.
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In Ethiopia, Artists Protect the Environment Through “Plant Graffiti”
Researchers and artists are working to restore biodiversity in Kofele, Ethiopia, through a 50-meter tree nursery in the shape of a lion that will be visible from outer space.
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Photographer Captures Built-Up Pandemic Waste Polluting the Seas
Şebnem Coşkun is among the winners of the Nature Conservancy’s 2021 photo contest, featuring images of landscape, wildlife, people, and water.
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Who Owns the Earth?
This group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art.