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Eric Adams, Zohran Mamdani Battle Over Beloved Art Garden in New York

11/18/2025

Elizabeth Street Garden is yet again the center of debate—this time between current New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his successor, Zohran Mamdani. Adams, who once sought to level the garden in favor of a housing development, abandoned the …

Метки : нью-йорксаддоступное жильеэкологияместные сообществамэрия

African Artists Call on Museums to Rethink Debt to Plantations

11/11/2025

In recent years, museums have expressed their wishes to rethink their pasts, returning looted objects, acknowledging the original inhabitants of the land where they are located, and taking steps to deepen their collections of art by women and artists of …

Метки : музеиискусствоплантацииреституцияэкологиясоциальная справедливость

ICA San Francisco to Adopt ‘Fully Nomadic, Citywide Model’ Next Year

10/30/2025

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) will leave its current home at The Cube in December in favor of adopting a “a fully nomadic, citywide model” that will see it present exhibitions and programs at various sites …

Метки : искусствовыставкисан-франциско#культуракочевая модельэкология

Activists Protest Cai Guo-Qiang at Centre Pompidou

10/27/2025

A fireworks show by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris last week drew condemnation from activists who previously called for a boycott of the artist earlier this year. The Paris performance, titled Le Dernier Carnival (The …

Метки : искусствотибетцай гуо-цяньсобытияэкологияпротесты

Pope Leo XIV Blesses 20,000-Year-Old Ice at Rome Climate Conference

10/04/2025

At the Raising Hope conference in Rome this week, Pope Leo XIV blessed a 20,000-year-old piece of Greenland glacial ice brought onstage by artist Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson, who is known for large-scale works that explore natural phenomena, transported the block …

Метки : климатискусствоэкологияледпапаконференция

Picasso Inspires Name of Newly Discovered Microsnail

09/16/2025

Remember the taxonomy mnemonic you learned in high school biology? It will come in handy again while trying to parse the news about the recent discovery of 46 new species (all falling under the same genus, Anauchen) of Southeast Asian …

Метки : научное открытиемикроснайлпикассомалакологияискусствоэкология

Anonymous Was a Woman Awards Over $500,000 in Environmental Grants

08/28/2025

Anonymous Was a Woman Awards Over $500,000 in Environmental Grants Anonymous Was a Woman(AWAW) in collaboration with theNew York Foundation for the Arts(NYFA) has named the 2025 recipients of funds from AWAW’s Environmental Art Grants (EAG) program,Artnewsreports. Twenty-nine projects led …

Метки : экологияискусствогрантыженское искусствоэкологические проектыподдержка художников

AWAW and NYFA Award $521,125 in Environmental Art Grants

08/27/2025

Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have named this year’s recipients of the AWAW Environmental Art Grants program. Together, the arts organizations awarded $521,125 to 29 projects. The program awards one-time grants …

Метки : искусствоэкологиягрантыженщины-художницыкризаобщественное вовлечение

Greenpeace Hangs Kapoor's Blood-Red Artwork From Gas Rig in North Sea

08/18/2025

Last Wednesday, Greenpeace activists scaled a gas rig in the North Sea, unfurled a 315-square-foot canvas across its side, and sprayed crimson paint over it. The act was a piece of protest art designed by Anish Kapoor.Titled Butchered, it has …

Метки : greenpeaceискусствопротестэкологияклиматаниш капур

Rosa Barba Wins the Zurich Art Prize 2026

08/06/2025

The Museum Haus Konstruktiv and Zurich Insurance Group Ltd have announced Sicily-born, Berlin-based installation artist Rosa Barba as the 19th winner of Zurich Art Prize. Barba will now receive 100,000 CHF ($124,000) toward a show at the Museum Haus Konstructiv, …

Метки : искусствовыставкаинсталляциянаградыэкологияконцептуальное искусство

UK MPs to Debate Banning Advertising by Oil Companies

07/07/2025

On Monday, the UK parliament will debate whether sponsorship and advertising by fossil fuel companies should be made illegal. The move comes after a petition calling to ban such deals—like the £50 million ($63.3 million) partnership between energy giant BP …

Метки : парламентископаемое топливорекламаэкология#культурабританский музей

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Announces 2025 Climate Initiative Grantees

06/28/2025

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Announces 2025 Climate Initiative Grantees TheHelen Frankenthaler Foundationon June 27 announced the seventy-four recipients of its 2025Frankenthaler Climate Initiative(FCI) grants, totaling $3.4 million. The foundation, which to date has distributed more than $17.5 million among 249 grantees …

Метки : искусствоэкологиягрантыклиматустойчивое развитиефонды

Climate Activist Hurls Paint at Picasso Painting at Montreal Museum

06/21/2025

On Thursday, a Picasso painting on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was splashed with bright pink paint by an environmental activist, in the latest of such attempts to draw attention to the accelerating climate crisis. Footage posted …

Метки : экологияискусствопротестпикассоклиматический кризиссоциальные медиа

Campaigners Call for Schools to Boycott Science Museum Over Funding

06/10/2025

The sponsorship deals between London’s Science Museum and oil giant BP and Adani Green Energy have been put into sharp focus after the UK’s largest education union backed a boycott of the cultural institution.National Education Union (NEU) representatives were outside …

Метки : #культурабойкотлондонискусствообразованиеэкология