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Eco Art Blog asks the best question ever asked in the history of blogs with the word “eco” in their name: The New York Times had an article last month about regenerating mammoths for about $10 million. The story was interesting with lots of scientific and ethical considerations, but left unmentioned was I remember interviewing Jake and Dinos Chapman at Frieze a couple of years ago when they were doing their ten-minute portraits in the booth there. They were full of millenarian glee at the overblown state of the artmarket, to which they were obviously contributing with their presence. “Artistic production,” said Jake I’ve just posted an interview with sustainability expert Peter Head – named by Time magazine as one of the Environmental Heroes of 2008 – on the main RSA Arts and Ecology website. He’s a great, genial, avuncular man, full of positives and enthusiasm. Or rather he was until I asked him this question: Given http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM0zQd1Uoz8″>different
In art’s current spirit of soul searching for a sense of engagement Art 21|blog attempts to ignite the debate: Have you ever been shocked by a work of art and if so, why? What’s your take?
They reference Kara Walker‘s images of slave rape, and the different We are now synidcating the feeds from the RSA Arts and Ecology Centre. From the RSA Website: The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to Christian Aid say EU leaders have bodged the European climate deal, and the the agreed 20%-only cut means we’re headed for a devastating three-degree plus increase in global temperatures. |
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