Artists Amy Plant and Ella Gibbs create a community food initiative at Walthamstow’s Gunpowder Park bringing together local residents and food growers. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology News
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When the big three automotive CEOs flew separate private jets to Washington, DC to plead for public funds, I remember thinking to myself that I was thankful that I was a publicist and marketing director for a non-profit arts organization. The type of arrogance it takes to fly corporate jets to ask for billions of {The map for what could have been my 50-mile, Saturday evening gallery commute.} Note: Credit for this idea goes to both my friend I.R. and Gustav Metzger’s project, Reduce Art Flights. This past Saturday, I was confronted with a relatively typical Saturday night—driving all over the Southland for gallery openings. Interesting shows on Gloucestershire artist Gavin McClafferty makes sculpture portraints from rubbish as part of council’s Zero Waste Challenge Week. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology News Actor Emma Thompson discussing the proposed third runway at Heathrow: “They say they’re doing it because there’s a demand. There might be a demand for child prostitution, but that doesn’t make it moral! The demand for more cars and planes is immoral.” Hat tip Robert Butler @ The Ashden Directory. Go to RSA Arts &
Challenging visions of sustainability, or rather the lack of it, are currently on show at the A+D Gallery at Columbia College in Chicago. Part environmental art exhibition, part cutting edge design show, works include photos by Edward Burtynsky contrasting with melting wax lamps (pictured above) by young German In the beginning, Stewart Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog. And the earth was without the web, google or blogging (which the Whole Earth Catalog is credited with inspiring). Steve Jobs described it as “an amazing publication… one of the bibles of my generation… It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years … if you were listening to Radio 4 this morning you would have heard a very brief snatch of RSA Arts & Ecology’s Michaela Crimmin respectfully disagreeing with the plan to use the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Squarefor a memorial to World War Two hero Sir Keith Park. The RSA were instrumental in A children’s arts venue in south-west London has become the first theatre in the UK to be powered solely by wind. The Colour House Children’s Theatre, based within the Grade II-listed Merton Abbey Mills, has had a new wind turbine installed which will completely cut its electricity bill, saving the venue up to £10,000 every |
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