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A | W | E: Artists | Writers | Environments

Announcing A | W | E: Artists | Writers | Environments: A Grant Program

Artists | Writers | Environments: A Grant Program
Teams of visual artists and writers who are U.S. citizens working on art + environment projects anywhere in the world from July 2010 through August 2011 will be eligible to apply for the first A | W | E Grant. Letters of interest must be received via e-mail on or before Friday, Apr… Continue

Added by Colin Robertson on March 4, 2010 at 8:17am — No Comments

Biophilia at the Biosphere, Part 3 of 3

William L. Fox

“Ocean View” © 2009 Judy Natal from the series Perfect Worlds. Tourists peer down at the small “ocean” biome from the “savanna.”

Several artists have worked at Biosphere 2, among them the photographers Judy Natal a… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on February 23, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Biophilia at the Biosphere, Part 2 of 3

William L. Fox

One of the triple-canopied vaulted roofs over the Argricutural Biome at Biosphere 2.

Rising alongside the long axial greenhouse of Biosphere 2 with its step-pyramids at each end are th… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on February 16, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Biophilia at the Biosphere, Part 1 of 3

William L. Fox

In 1991 the world’s largest closed system ever created by humans opened to international fanfare. John Allen and his experimental theatre group from New Mexico--who had for years been building and running facilities in a variety of environments around the globe--had managed to build in only four years one of the most complicated buildings imaginable. Biosphere 2, or B2 as it’s known, cover… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on February 9, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Public/Private Art at CityCenter, Las Vegas

William L. Fox

Nancy Rubins’ Big Edge dominates the drive in front of the Vitara Hotel & Spa porte-cochere. For the next three weeks I’ll be writing from the Biosphere 2 in Arizona, where I’m staying as a writer-in-residence with the B2 Institute. More about a… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on February 2, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

New Publication ‘Perceptions of place and deep time in the Australian desert: using art in environmental history’

Robin, Libby ‘Perceptions of place and deep time in the Australian desert: using art in environmental history’ in Timo Myllantaus (ed) Thinking through the Environment, Cambridge: White Horse Press (2010 in press).

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Added by Mandy Martin on January 26, 2010 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve

DESERT CHANNELS sketch January 2009LR.doc

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Added by Mandy Martin on January 25, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe: Charting the Canyon

William L. Fox

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Details from the view at Point Sublime on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, based on the panoramic drawing by William Holmes (1882). William Henry Holmes, 1882. Sheets XV, XVI, XVII. Panorama of Point Sublime. From Clarence Dutton,… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on January 12, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The New Topographics Redux

William L. Fox

Lewis Baltz (United States, b. 1945), Jamboree Road between Beckman and Richter Avenues, Looking Northwest (detail). From the series New Industrial Parks, 1974, gelatin silver print, 6 x 9 in., gift of the photographer, George Eastman House collections © Lewis Baltz. This f… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on January 1, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

The World's Longest Poem, Part 2 -- Atacama Desert

William L. Fox

Photography copyright © Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson and Jacket magazine 2006 Jerry and I fly into Antofagasta at 7:30 a.m. and land on its astonishingly lunar surface. There’s no other airport like it: the blue ocean, the waves on the rocky shore, and then two hundred feet above the breakers the flat gray sands of the… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on December 22, 2009 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Melbourne exhibition Kimberley artists and Mandy Martin

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Added by Mandy Martin on December 19, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Mandy Martin and Mangkaja Artists painting Fitzroy River Valley Country 2007-2009

View Pdf Mandy Martin and Mangkaja Artists painting Fitzroy River Valley Country 2007-2009 The Fitzroy Valley is a country of exceptional beauty — a place of transition and a zone of contact. At its heart lies the F… Continue

Added by Mandy Martin on December 19, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Mandy Martin, Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2009

MANDY MARTIN Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2009 Mandy Martin is a deeply subversive artist, as are all serious romantic painters, which is to say her work is all about individual hope posited against col… Continue

Added by Mandy Martin on December 19, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

4 New Photo Albums

Please visit My Photos and see 4 new stories including Imanara, a 2009 print portfolio with Mangkaja Artists from the Fitzroy River Valley in Western Australia

THE IMANARA PRINT FOLIO It was serendipity the day I met Janangoo Butcher Cherel; it led to one of the most extrao… Continue

Added by Mandy Martin on December 17, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

The World's Longest Poem, Part I -- Santiago, Chile

William L. Fox

The first sheet from the Pissis Atlas, Mapa de la Republica de Chile published in 1884, showing Antofagasta on the coast, and the Solar de Atacama to the east and under the shadow of the Andes. This is the territory that Jerry Moore and I will be traversing. Chile is so narrow a country that when you fly into Santiago… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on December 15, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

The Canary Project: Bloomington, Indiana

Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting: Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2008. Photography by Susannah Sayler. New York photographer Susannah Sayler read an article by Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change and began in 2006 to photograph sites where the change was manifesting dramatic change. The glaciers of Austria and Peru, coral reefs in the P… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on December 4, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Philip Johnson Glass House, Connecticut

William L. Fox

Philip Johnson House, photograph by Erik Johnson I’ve always thought of the Philip Johnson Glass House, designed by one of the founding fathers of modernism, as a single transparent structure hovering on the edge of a perfect lawn in New Canaan, that swanky Connecticut town where Cary Grant attempted to build his own arcadia i… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on December 4, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Land Arts of the American West, Wendover, Utah

William L. Fox One of my favorite annual trips is out to the twin towns of Wendover/West Wendover, Utah and Nevada, respectively, which abut the state line where Interstate 80 hits the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) maintains a couple of trailers there, and leases buildings on the WWII-era airbase, which used to be the largest military installation in the world. It’s where the Land Arts of the American West programs come to work each fall, a chance for me t… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on November 23, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Artist Jean-Claude Passes Away

Half of the famous husband-and-wife duo, one of the artists behind "The Gates," has passed away at the age of 74, of complications arising from a brain aneurysm. " Jean-Claude will be remembered wide… Continue

Added by Colin Robertson on November 19, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Land/Art New Mexico

William L. Fox This September I was in Albuquerque to give several talks as part of the six-month-long celebration of art & environment in New Mexico. More than two dozen venues, ranging from the small but exquisite The Land Gallery to the cavernous SITE Santa Fe, collaborated to “explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book.” The idea was both to shed light on how land art “seeks to address our changing rel… Continue

Added by Nevada Art on November 17, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments