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Flash Points: Art and the Environment
Spencer Finch, "White (Niagara Falls obscured by mist, April 17th, 2006 5:30pm)" Today we launch the next Flash Points topic, Art & the Environment. We first addressed this issue in Season Four’s...
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Artist Roni Horn discusses the paradoxical identity and dependency of water, paired with scenes of Icelandic landscapes. Water and Iceland serve as both subjects and metaphors in the artist’s work,...
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Dermatographia
Ariana Page Russell, “Index,” C-print, 2005. Courtesy www.arianapagerussell.com Hello Art:21 interweb world! I hope to do you justice with my musings and bits and pieces of contemporary art...
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Landscape Revisited
Bernd and Hilla Becher. "Harry E. Colliery Coal Breaker, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania," 1974. 8 Gelatin Silver Prints, 16 x 12 in. each. Courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Life is boring,” said...
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Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios
Robert Smithson, "Spiral Jetty," 1970 When I first saw that this site’s new Flash Points topic was Art and the Environment, I immediately thought of two artists: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios....
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Teaching Ecoartivism
Carla Goldberg, “It’s All About the River,” 2009 — “ecoartivism”; Pronunciation: ēko’ar –ti,- vi-zəm; Function: noun The practice of using art as a tool for the advocacy of the preservation,...
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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
"Flock of Seagulls." Source: Getty Images It’s a cage that went in search of a bird…Sreshta Rit Premnath explores the ocean as a territory that lies outside the realm of governmentality. Nicole rounds...
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Sustainable Architecture: Style vs. Substance
Stephen Kanner, Malibu 5 House, Malibu, CA, 2008 Sustainable architecture is in danger. This might sound like a surprising claim, given the fact that never before has “green” living been such a popular...
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Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech
Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir founded EcoArtTech as their collaborative platform for digital environmental art in 2005. They are 2009 Artist Fellowship recipients from the New York Foundation for...
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Exploring the Makeshift Landscape
Eirik Johnson, Untitled 2003 (#2 debris under the bridge), 2003, from the series Borderlands We invited photographer Eirik Johnson to write about his ongoing exploration of humankind’s environmental...
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Blogalogueing with EcoArtTech
Behold! The experiment begins! Listen in on our first Systems vs. Networks conversation with Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir of EcoArtTech… PS. This is a better spelling of “blogalogueing” right?...
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Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam
ETeam is comprised of Hajoe and Franziska. They were introduced to me by Cary Peppermint, who met them at an exhibition they all participated in, called Ebay. ETeam’s work includes mainly long-term...
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Electrical Forest: Made in Troy
Noah Fischer, "Electrical Forest: Made in Troy," 2009 We invited artist Noah Fischer to write about his current project, Electrical Forest: Made in Troy, a site-specific installation in Troy, New York....
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Deference to the Vernacular
Donald Judd, "15 untitled works in concrete," 1980-1984 In a short essay dealing with the peculiarities of the West Texas that Donald Judd called home, he writes, Here, everywhere, the destruction of...
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Tree Museum
We invited artist Katie Holten to write about her current project, Tree Museum, a public artwork in the Bronx, New York. — Ed. Katie Holten, "Tree Museum," Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York, 2009....
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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Cheese Fondue, Source: JustHungry.com VIDEO EXCLUSIVE — Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity New Guest Blogger: Kelly Rakowski, a graphic designer and Head of the Book Department at Todd Oldham...
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Art and Nature at Storm King
Flash Points Editor Rachel Craft interviewed David R. Collens, Director and Curator of Storm King Art Center, about the institution’s focus on the relationship between art and nature. —Ed. Mark di...
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When Nature Takes Over
William Christenberry, "Kudzu with Storm Cloud, near Akron, Alabama," 1981. “It is the common mission of the entire mankind to curb global warming and save our planet.” So said China’s Prime Minister,...
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Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico
Land Arts of the American West, art site at Powell Lake, Utah There is plenty of environmentally-minded art these days, but very few academic classes on the subject, let alone degree programs. That...
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Inhale. Exhale. Whew.
Marisa Olson, “Assisted Living,” 2008. Performance still. Courtesy the Artist. In the New York Times video Copenhagen 101, reporter Tom Zeller asks people in Times Square what they know about the...
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