Climate change
Taking a stand: climate crisis tops agenda as Frieze London returns
Fair shines a spotlight on the Gallery Climate Coalition’s campaign for a more sustainable, less wasteful art world
Disasters sweep across the screen in Nature by Artavazd Peleshian
The first new film in 30 years by the veteran Armenian director, commissioned by the Fondation Cartier, had its premiere at the NY Film Festival this week
Climate scientist stands down as adviser to London's Science Museum over fossil fuel sponsorship
Chris Rapley, a professor of climate science at University College London, disagrees with the museum's "ongoing willingness to accept oil and gas company sponsorship"
Superflex to send climate-conscious message during 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York
The Danish art collective will show one work on the façade of the international agency's Manhattan headquarters next week
'Now is the time': UK artists and galleries unite for climate campaign to mark COP26 conference
Conservation charity WWF and curatorial collective Artwise call on art world to raise funds and awareness for climate action
Ancient Chinese sites hit by flash floods this summer
Deadly rains in central Henan province threatened key Unesco World Heritage sites and hundreds of national relics. Experts warn the disaster may be a taste of future trouble
Greta Thunberg says Science Museum ‘killed its reputation’ after it is revealed Shell sponsorship came with gagging order
Culture Unstained activists say contract clause is ‘chilling’ but museum group says cutting ties with energy groups is ‘unproductive’
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces its first round of climate grants to art institutions
Stipends, ranging from around $7,000 to $100,000, will help museums jump-start clean energy, climate disaster protection and sustainability projects
Venice is not in danger, according to Unesco
For the third time, the World Heritage Committee has voted not to add the Serenissima to list of sites at risk
The IPCC’s predictions of sea-level rise are why Italy should beg Unesco to put Venice on its at risk list
It would support the difficult measures the government will have to enact to save Venice from certain death. But Unesco is toothless
New international climate action coalition aims to make the art industry sustainable
Partners for Arts Climate Targets (PACT) is made up of several arts and culture organisations already focused on environmental change
Watch Tomás Saraceno create invisible drawings in the sky above a champagne vineyard
The Argentinian artist’s work aims to make aspects of climate change “more tangible”
Climate disaster: photographer Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon
Plus, artist Rachel Maclean on Hieronymus Bosch's influence
Launch of Artists Commit intensifies the push to act on climate change
Organisation aims to put pressure on galleries to adopt sustainable practices
After staunch criticism, Science Museum defends oil company Shell’s sponsorship of its climate exhibition
Director Ian Blatchford says that the Science Museum Group "retains editorial control" over London show
Gallery Climate Coalition expands to Berlin
The London-based eco-friendly initiative aims to reduce galleries' carbon footprints by at least 50% over the next decade—now German galleries are getting involved too
Eco-themed art shows to fill New York’s empty storefronts
The programme Rebound-NYC opens a major group exhibition in Union Square on Earth Day
Only connect: Icomos and Europa Nostra join up to influence European Union’s one trillion euro Green Deal
Conservation experts and lobby group launch a Green Paper to put Europe’s heritage at the heart of the EU’s greening policy
Can Biden's inauguration galvanise the US art world into finally taking action against climate change?
As new US president plans to tackle global warming on "an epic scale", green initiatives such as Galleries Commit are gaining steam
A seven-mile underwater sculpture park is slated to open in Miami Beach next December
The Reef Line, designed by the architect Shohei Shigematsu/OMA, will include new commissions by Leandro Erlich, Ernesto Neto and Agustina Woodgate
Season for Change launches four £10,000 artist commissions to support climate action
The project will support works centred around underrepresented communities in the climate movement
Ocean art space in Venice church confronts city's perilous battle with climate change
Multimedia installation synthesises three years of scientific research into marine transformation across the planet
‘It's the end of civilisation’: Alexis Rockman on his new watercolour series created during lockdown
The paintings depict animals shipwrecked by the networks of capitalism grinding ecosystems to a nub, the artist says
Today, a live-streamed, UN-sponsored discussion about what culture can do in the face of sea-level rise
Send in your comments, to be presented to the UN General Assembly in September
Inverleith House reinvents as climate crisis venue in partnership with Serpentine Galleries
Historic Edinburgh gallery will become ‘Climate House’ following £150,000 lifeline funding award from Outset
Art museums should use their endowments to help battle climate change
In April, Harvard University announced plans to realign its $40bn endowment to reflect “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—other US institutions can do the same
Museum top brass are losing the oil money plot
Decision by London's British Museum and Science Museum to continue accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies risks alienating the public they serve