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This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland Brief for a campaign extension Bill McKibben‘s team along with a number of other NGOs and activist groups in the US and Canada have been campaigning to stop Obama signing off the Keystone XL project. The extension of the Keystone pipeline is  Friends of the CSPA, Linh Do and Tim Hall interview Bill McKibben on the 28th of November in Cancún, Mexico before COP16, the UN climate change negotiations. Bill talks about his work at 350.org and as a writer, before discussing the future of the environment movement, the virtues of young people and his expectations Any fellowship program that respects artists will not set out like missionaries to train them to be good citizens, which will do as much to reinforce the popular assumption that artists are irresponsible children as supporting facile aesthetic tantrums . . . The visual arts field should be seen as en ecosystem in When: Thursday, April 29 Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 83rd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City What time: 8–9:30 p.m. With Jostein Gaarder, James Hansen, [read more] Thanksgiving long past, and holiday feasts ahead, but I’m already stuffed, thank you, with this years’ steady eco-art diet of Land Art adventures and COP15 coverage. It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed with art-nerd-glee. There is such a thing as an information coma, I swear. The art-and-landscape dishes started churning out of the Nevada In advance of COP15, there is a growing mass of intiatives binding us together to scare the negotiators into action. They are in no particular order. Look down the list and Bill McKibben wrote recently on Grist.org about how, over the last few years, art has been shouting increasingly stridently about climate: That torrent of art has been, often, deeply disturbing—it should |
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