I. FRAMING THE PRACTICE When discussing Canadian works on and about the land, I find it valuable to bring forward the special cultural context in which these works arise. Even if an artist does not choose to consciously engage place histories in their work,...
In New York in the 1970s, widespread desire for anti-traditional forms of behavior and art, surging feminist solidarity, and nascent environmentalism moved innovative women sculptors who worked in nature into a new presence in the art world. Not since Henry James's...
Feminist ideas then & now are linked/changed, expanded/contracted? How things have changed in ecoart since that panel in 1999....or what internet and other extended forms of communication since then have changed the field. In 1999, at the dawn of the conservative...
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California. April 1 to September 27, 2009 ARTISTS: Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramirez Erre, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater, Xu Bing. CAN ARTISTS INSPIRE CONSERVATION? CAN CONSERVATION INSPIRE ARTISTS?...
Welcome to our first issue. It took three years to think about, design, and create this website. With luck, the next issue will come easier and faster. BUILDING COMMUNITIES After 15 years of publishing the artists' Directory, we're pushing edges to publish exclusively...