MOMA PS1 describes itself as a public exhibition space that “devotes its energy and resources to displaying the most experimental art in the world.” It’s current exhibit – Greater New York 2010 – runs until October and exhibits the work of emerging artists including an intriguing installation by David Brooks. The artist has assembled some [...]
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Trees In Concrete – David Brooks at MOMA PS1
1 June 2010, 3:14 pm
Filed under Conceptual Art, Installation, Social/Activist Art.
Tagged deforestation, MOMA, New York City
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Sex, Celebrity and Conservation – The Art of Peter Beard
10 May 2010, 3:11 pm
Peter Beard is probably one of the earliest modern artists to turn his hand to the issues of Man’s ever-increasing impact on the planet and the resulting death and destruction. Using a photographic medium, Beard starting by documenting, in the 1960s, the destruction of wildlife habitat and the death of over 35,000 elephants and 5,000 [...]
Filed under Photography, Social/Activist Art.
Tagged Africa, animals, man and nature, Photography
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ext Inked – Tattooes for Life
5 December 2009, 1:37 pm
How much do people care about the extinction of species? It turns out that a significant number of people care enough to become ‘permanent ambassadors’ of an endangered species. In a unique activist, social work of art, The Ultimate Holding Company, a co-operative based in Manchester, England, has just completed a project entitled ext Inked. [...]
Filed under Conceptual Art, Social/Activist Art.
Tagged biodiversity, endangered species, extInked, social art, tattoo, Ultimate Holding Company
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