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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:44:13 +0000http://backend.userland.com/rss092enEmma Ridgway on Gustav Metzger
Gustav Metzger with Jeremy Deller: June 5 2009, UN World Environment Day, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Does the fact that an artist like Gustav Metzger, who has been creating politically agressive aggressive works for 60 years, is so much in the spotlight at this late point in his career say anything about ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/11/06/emma-ridgway-on-gustav-metzger/
New Life Copenhagen: art, generosity and COP15This via CSPA:
Planning or trying to figure out how to get to Copenhagen for COP15?
New Life Copenhagen and Wooloo.org can help. Here’s a video introduction:
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Much respect to wooloo.org and their excellent art network. And I have to thank them for organising a place for me when I'm there from 7th ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/11/04/new-life-copenhagen-art-generosity-and-cop15/
Prix Pictet winner: Nadav Kander’s Yangtze river project
Chongqing XI, Series: Yangtze, The Long River, Chongqing, China 2007 by Nadav Kander
Just over a week ago Nadav Kander was named as winner of the excellent 2009 Prix Pictet, the prize given to photography on the theme of environmental sustainability. Last year's shortlist, which included Benoit Aquin, Edward Burtynsky, David ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/11/03/prix-pictet-winner-nadav-kanders-yangtze-river-project/
Hard science vs harder politicsYou can find yourself feeling sorry for UK home secretary Alan Johnson, currently embroiled in a messy fracas with his own former scientific advisor on drugs. In the rough and tumble of pre-election politics, an evidence-based drug policy which advocates the downgrading of the status of cannabis and ecstasy can ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/11/02/hard-science-vs-harder-politics/
In praise of the Boring MilipedeBoring Milipede
Erratic Ant
Hornet Robberfly
Orange Roughy
Elegant Earthstar...
Today I am giddy with the found poetry of the names of endangered British species. A member of the Arts & Ecology ning has posted news of an imaginative new artwork by the Ultimate Holding Company collective in Manchester. extInked starts on November 19 November ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/10/21/in-praise-of-the-boring-milipede/
Stella Vine protests Gary McKinnon extradition
From The Art Newspaper:
Controversial painter Stella Vine, best known for her headline-hitting depictions of Diana, Princess of Wales, and supermodel Kate Moss, has now turned her artistic gaze to Gary McKinnon (pictured), the Brit accused of hacking into secret US military and Nasa computers. McKinnon has been diagnosed with Asperger's ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/10/21/stella-vine-protests-gary-mckinnon-extradition/
Jamie Hewlett pictures climate change
"This is the river erosion, showing how the bank has almost been sliced away. You can see the men folk looking at us on our boat – watching us quizzically as to who we are. I liked the idea of putting the paintings on paper and envelopes that were a ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/10/20/jamie-hewlett-draws-climate-change/
Trafigura, reputation management and the artsLast week the much-tweeted Trafigura affair collided with the world of art - with ungainly results. It's not just Trafigura and Carter Ruck's reputation that have taken a pasting over the last few days on Twitter.
On Friday, Twitterers claimed victory in a freedom of speech issue surrounding the oil trading ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/10/19/trafigura-reputation-management-and-the-arts/
Who’s in the house? Well, on the house, really. Bat House update
Just had an excited email from the WWT London Wetlands Centre. A bat came and checked out the Bat House. [Background: the Berkeley Bat House is a project envisaged by artist Jeremy Deller and put into action by a partnership of organisations that included the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre].
Yes, ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/10/16/whos-in-the-house-well-on-the-house-really-bat-house-update/
#Trafigura art prize to be announced November 3It is a struggle for artists to get paid, but surely no artist in their right mind would want to accept a prize from a company with a reputation like Trafigura's. That would be, ah, toxic to any emerging artist's career, don't you think?:
Young Masters will also officially launch an ...
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/10/15/trafigura-art-prize-to-be-announced-november-3/