Trashy.

An in-depth look at eco-artist Darvius from Current. Blows yer mind.

 

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Benefit for Friends of the LA River

Billboards, Gelatin silver composite print, 74″ x 25 by Matthew Betcher. C4Gallery in Hollywood is hosting a benefit for Friends of the Los Angeles River this Saturday, 2/21 from 5 pm to midnight. Work featured includes photos by Matthew Betcher and Oramah Bagheri.

Unfortunately, the FOLAR page doesn’t have links to individual posts so you’ll

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Public art & the horse’s arse

If art is dependent on context, what kind of context does the new industrial landscape of Ebbsfleet make? In the art world, the thumbs nay be up for Mark Wallinger’s Ebbsfleet horse. Ian Jack has a column in Saturday’s Guardian which looks at this from a

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David Cotterrell: Truth in the mundane

MICHAELA CRIMMIN: I went to  a fascinating talk at the weekend by David Cotterrell, whose work is being shown for just one more week as part of the Wellcome Collections’s War + Medicine exhibition, where both complexity and the everyday are tackled through art. Cotterrell’s video pieces in the exhibition were made in

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Experimental Geography, Now On Tour

{Boiling Milk by Ilana Halperin}

Another cool-looking traveling show that might be coming to your neck of the woods : Experimental Geography is currently at the Rochester Art Center in Minnesota, and will be making stops in New Mexico and Maine throughout the next year. Not much at the show’s [read more]

7 ways of looking at Altermodernism

WILLIAM SHAW: Taking a jaunt around some of the discussions thrown up by Nicolas Bourriaud’s Altermodern manifesto and exhibition at Tate Britain I found myself constructing a kind of Beaufort Scale of critical responses:

1/. The Thrilled. Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

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Try Harder, won’t you?

Man, these guys are jerks. That’s why I love ‘em and will be checking in….at least until the next cool blog comes along.

try-har-der.blogspot.com Go to Eco Art Blog

Launch of Arcola’s Green Sundays

Join us at the launch of Arcola’s Green Sundays, more details at www.arcolaenergy.com.  Download full Winter/Spring 2008 Season Brochure Now: http://www.arcolatheatre.com/SHARE/Arcola_Winter_2009.pdf

The Water’s Edge     3-28 Feb by Theresa Rebeck A modern Greek tragedy that explodes the American family from within. With Madeleine Potter, Robert Cavanah, Mark Field, Cressida Trew and Kate Sissons.

Book

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The significance of a plastic bag

MICHAELA CRIMMIN: One of this week’s pleasures – pleasure with a big kick in its tail – was opening the October Gallery’s exhibition of work by Chinese artist Huang Xu, entitled Fragments. Big photographic works featuring plastic bags, tattered and torn and beautiful and fragile. For me these are warnings – plastic

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The strange shape of environmental politics

I’m hazarding there are three possible responses to environmental politics:

1) The eco-modernists. (Beloved of big business, progressive bureaucrats and technophiles; believe if we work hard, eco-modernism can save us). 2) The “Keep Calm And Carry On” contingency. (Most people. Suspicious of change, and therfore not keen on the above, or…) 3) The

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