A new Esquimalt art exhibit is using intricate paintings of animals and plants to draw attention to an issue that’s been top of mind for many B.C. residents in the last year – climate change. Hollow Ground is a 17-piece display by Island artist Claire Gaulin-Brown. “It’s a body of work that shows how fragile our existence is and that we’re walking on hollow ...
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) — Fourteen artists will feature their works of art at an exhibition that focuses on climate change and the environment.The 'Environmentally Speaking' exhibition will take place on January 16 at the Janice Charach Gallery located at the Jewish Community Center at 6600 W. Maple Road in West Bloomfield. The exhibition will run through March 3, 2022.Michigan artist and curator Laura ...
As part of its larger focus on climate change, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is working with the Asia Society to launch the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards. The grants—organized in conjunction with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection, all based in Washington, D.C.—will go to visual artists ...
The holidays give you a chance to slow down for a moment, take a sip of mulled cider or egg nog, and reflect on the year gone by. We asked our Greater LA contributors — Eater LA Reporter Mona Holmes, CARLA Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Preston Zappas, and LA Times Columnist Gustavo Arellano — to sum up 2021 in their respective fields of dining, art, and ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TOP MARKS. At Sotheby’s modern art sale in New York last night, a 1949 Frida Kahlo self-portrait went for $34.9 million, a record for a Kahlo at auction—as well as a record for a work by any Latin American artist on the block. The previous record holder? That would be none other than the artist’s husband, Diego ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE CLIMATE TALKS BEGIN. World leaders are converging on Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, aka COP26, and artists are participating in various ways. A text piece by Jenny Holzer that quotes activist Greta Thunberg will be projected in the city, the National reports; street murals made by children about climate change have gone up around ...
The thing that most reviews and features haven’t conveyed about Sun & Sea (Marina), the acclaimed opera about climate change that won Lithuania the 2019 Venice Biennale Golden Lion award, is the strange delight of experiencing it live. The work recently made its US debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where, as at other venues, the audience stood on a platform, ringed round ...
Superblue, the immersive art experience offshoot of Pace Gallery that launched its own experiential art center in Miami this May, is bringing its signature high-tech spectacles to New York and London this fall. First, an exhibition featuring DRIFT, the Dutch artist collective run by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Naut, touches down at the Shed in New York’s Hudson Yards in October. On view through ...
An online campaign launched by wildlife conservation group World Wildlife Fund has tapped contemporary artists by the likes of Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, and Jadé Fadojutimi for an initiative to raise funds to combat climate change. The project, Art For Your World, was established by London-based Artwise Curators on behalf of WWF-UK, as part of the organization’s 60th anniversary program. The launch of the ...
