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ext Inked – Tattooes for Life
How much do people care about the extinction of species? It turns out that a significant number of people care enough to become ‘permanent ambassadors’ of an endangered species. In a unique activist,...
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Amazonia – Lucy + Jorge Orta at the Natural History Museum, London
One of the most exciting things about this exhibition is that the Natural History Museum (MNH) has established a contemporary arts programme – of which this exhibition is a part. It is both...
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Practical, Beautiful and Surreal – The Work of Jason de Caires Taylor
How and why would one create an underwater scutpture park? Sculptor and scuba diver Jason de Caires Taylor has, so far, created a total of 65 underwater sculptural installations in Mexico and across...
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From Vietnam to The Environment: The work of Maya Lin
Maya Lin shot to fame when, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, she won an open competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. An architect, artist and sculptor, Maya Lin...
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Wildlife Made Homeless – Born Free’s Ad Campaign
For many people it is difficult to understand, let alone empathize with, technical statements like “loss of habitat”. This advertizing campaign from the charity Born Free aims to bring this issue into...
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Why is environmentalism so unimportant? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Venice...
A couple of days of slogging hard through the Venice Biennale this year left one message – the environment doesn’t matter and neither do those concerned with ‘preserving’ it. I spent my days enjoying...
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Gary Hume – Are the issues to big for any of us?
Hermaphrodite Polar Bear Gary Hume is a successful British artist who does not usually engage with environmental issues. He became involved with Cape Farewell and created some artworks in an attempt to...
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Money for Our Times – Artists Design Money
This week The Guardian asked artists and writers to design images of money that would be appropriate for our times. As one can imagine, numerous themes have been explored by the artists concerned....
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