Environmentalism

Slags, bings and pipelines: Edinburgh landscape offers fitting backdrop for exhibition on fossil fuel extraction

While Jupiter Artland show brings together five artists whose work explores energy histories, the sculpture park and gallery has transitioned to nearly 100% renewable energy

Sustainability charity Gallery Climate Coalition launches new consultancy to support climate action

The consultancy aims to deepen the organisation’s impact by providing direct support for the visual arts sector and reinvesting over half of its profits back into GCC

Olafur Eliasson stages public wake for the Great Salt Lake in Utah

A recent ten-day “symphony of disappearing sounds” brought attention to the fragility of the Western Hemisphere’s largest saltwater lake

Tomás Saraceno and Indigenous communities build art complex in Argentine salt flats

The monumental outdoor environment, “El Santuario del Agua” (The Water Sanctuary), is located in one of the world’s largest lithium reserves

Practice what you preach: artists reflect on ocean crisis at England's Baltic as centre wins sustainability award

Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas and Otobong Nkanga are among the artists included in the group exhibition 'For All At Last Return'

Buyers of art collective's controversial food industry project to decide young cow's fate

The work, which has sparked online backlash, will see buyers of the project's tokens choose whether Angus becomes hamburgers and handbags, or is sent to live at an animal sanctuary

How ‘archaeological ceramicist’ Yasmin Smith has forever changed the way I look at flint

“Elemental Life” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia shows the artist's unique use of sculpture and glazes to explore history, ecology and geology

Art, fashion and nature join forces

As the Villa Zegna pop-up takes root in Miami, the artist Sam Falls and Edoardo Zegna discuss the common threads in their work

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Concrete cars for coral reefs: Miami's underwater eco-sculpture park takes shape

The artist Leandro Erlich has created the first work for Reefline, a submerged installation that aims to regenerate coral and marine biodiversity along South Beach

Climate report from Getty’s PST Art programme urges cultural organisations to confront exhibitions’ impacts

The report is a significant step toward addressing the environmental sustainability of art world activities

These artists want your help distracting fossil fuel executives

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily empower visitors to fight climate change

Olafur Eliasson’s next project raises alarm over the decline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake

An important part of local and global ecosystems, the lake is facing significant drought due to diversion and climate change

Artist Maya Lin poses probing questions around New York City during Climate Week

Lin’s project, along with other timely shows and programmes around the city, uses art to address the climate crisis

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Buyer’s choice: how collectors factor into the art world’s quest for environmental sustainability

With the agency to make decisions on emissions-heavy activities, collectors play a crucial role in the industry

Frankenthaler Foundation awards grants totalling $3.4m for new climate initiatives

In addition to revealing the 74 recipients of new Frankenthaler Climate Initiative grants, the foundation announced it will extend the initiative another five years

Julian Charrière: ‘The deep sea is a phantasmagorical space’

The French Swiss artist—whose practice focuses on the Arctic, the oceans and the history of the Earth—finds connections with the kinetic art of Jean Tinguely in his latest solo exhibition

'It's like playing jazz': Carl Cheng reflects on his ecological investigations at the ICA in Philadelphia

The Post-Minimalist art outlaw is the subject of his first major museum survey

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Moca Los Angeles announces recipients of new environmental art prize

The artists Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière will each receive $100,000 and exhibit new work at the museum

Beatriz da Costa’s pigeon-based eco-art project takes flight again in Los Angeles

The late artist's ‘interspecies’ collaboration, PigeonBlog, is launching on 19 October as part of PST Art

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Bizarre optics at Cai Guo-Qiang’s fiery kick-off event for Getty’s PST Art initiative

Fireworks by the Chinese artist ran counter to the point of many PST Art projects

Sustainability organisation Gallery Climate Coalition shuts down volunteer programme, citing a lack of funds

The initiative included chapters in seven cities and countries forming one of the art world’s largest climate networks

Frankenthaler Foundation announces $3.3m in climate grants to 69 art organisations

The money will be used to install solar panels, updating lighting and create carbon-neutrality plans

Tree-planting project memorialising Black lives lost brings 40,000 trees to urban centres across the US

The community-driven living monument from MIT Media Lab’s Poetic Justice will include an evolving, digitally networked story archive

‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land

At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis and Shane Perley-Dutcher are part of a push to advocate for environmental and social justice

Agnes Denes resurrects famous ‘Wheatfield’ work in Montana

Sowing seeds of sustainable development, the artist has planted a version of her celebrated Land art piece in booming Bozeman, Montana

‘Iron fist in a velvet glove’: Detroit public sculpture tracks air quality and cleans the polluted environment

A new regenerative installation by Jordan Weber raises awareness of environmental racism

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The artist ‘bending’ the Los Angeles River

Lauren Bon is hoping her new project can save some of Southern California’s most precious resource: water

Five museum shows to see in Chicago this spring

From a retrospective of Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg to a group show of Native American photography and video

Théodore Rousseau, the early eco-warrior, gets Paris show

The leader of the Barbizon School was a cultural and social rebel, and a precursor of environmentalism