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I haven’t been posting on the Eco Art Blog recently; as I’ve said before, others are doing a better job at that than I have the time for. Also, the end of grad school has piled on a lot of time-consuming activities, like mounting a thesis show. But I am happy to {UNM Land Arts students at the Spiral Jetty.} An interview I did about the new Art and Ecology program at University of New Mexico is on the Art 21 blog. The interview is part of the blog’s Flash Points series focusing on art and the natural world. Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada will present his artwork Native Flags at the Verge Miami Art Fair Dec. 3–6. The goal of the project is reforestation and awareness of global warming and its impact on political jostling for control of the Northwest Passage. Cortada planted his green flag at the North Pole this past Just in from the LA Urban Rangers mailing list: More Malibu Beach Safaris this summer. I wrote about going on one of these safaris last year, and highly recommend it. Here’s the info: ==================== The Los Angeles Urban Rangers announce: MALIBU PUBLIC BEACHES SAFARIS–SUMMER 2009 Tired of Zuma and Surfrider? Want to find and Submission Deadline: August 15 Submit to: mammutmag@gmail.com Anticipated release date: Mid-October, 2009 The first two issues of Mammut focused on various topics related to art and the environment. For our third issue we will focus on megafauna, one of the original inspirations for this magazine, which was named after the extinct American Mastodon or Mammut americanum. We I’ve received a few emails alerting me that I had information wrong in my previous post on Chapman Kelley’s piece, Chicago Wildflower Works. Here’s a shot from 1992, taken well before the park was altered by the city of Chicago. The image was provided by the artist. And the shot I used in {Chapman Kelley’s wildflower park in Chicago. I think this is a before shot?} …or at least the courts say so. I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out what is going on here, mostly because I haven’t seen before and after shots, but artist Chapman Kelley is appealing a court decision stating that his Are we heading into an era of a homogonized plant and animal communities, brought on by our global economy that moves everything around, whether it is goods, animals or bacteria and fungus? In an article titled The Sixth Extinction in the May 25, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about |
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