Tag: Exhibits - Page 5
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Ouroboros: The Story of Life From the Big Bang to Lady Gaga - Art Show Extended in NYC
"In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic
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Banksy Graffiti Feud Continues
Banksy, the famous graffiti artist, is in an epic feud with the venerable graffiti artist King Robbo. And we are so chuffed because the Guardian newspaper quoted TreeHugger in its account of the ongoing saga.
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Stone Houses, Solar Flowers, and More at Interni Think Tank
Rendering of "T-Garden" by Luca Trazzi. Photo via Interni Philippe Starck -- one of the participants in the FuoriSalone 2010 Interni Think Tank exhibition held at the same time as the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 -- is one
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: A Room Made of Cardboard...Can You Tell?
Cardboard is one of those underrated materials, often with a short and meaningless lifespan that ends when your package is delivered. Unless you are cardboard in the hands of io10design's cardboard fiends
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Indestructible Umbrella? Senz Uses Extreme Sports to Find Out (Video)
So we are pretty keen on finding a solution to disposable design, or objects conceived to break here at TreeHugger, and one of our favorites is the shoddily-designed umbrella, which we gave its due way back in 2006 with our Umbrella
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City Trees: Photographers Explore the Urban Forest (Slideshow)
Trees in the city don't just provide visual relief and cooling shade in the midst of the hard-edged urban jungle: They remove greenhouse gases and pollutants from the air, lower power
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Artists' Answers to Question: 'What Matters Most?'
A sampling of work produced for the Ecoartspace benefit show. Clockwise from top left: Joseph Smolinski, "Oil and Water," 2010, courtesy Mixed Greens Gallery; Paul Miller (aka D.J. Spooky), "Manifesto for a People's Republic of Antarctica," 2009,
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Green Festival San Francisco - Impressive Speaker Line-Up Spotlights Top Troubles and Solutions in Sustainability
Hunter Lovins at Green Festival San Francisco; Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Green Festival hit San Francisco for the first springtime event. If you haven't hit one of these events yet, you're missing out. From DC to Chicago, from Seattle to San Francisco,
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Thirsty Yet? In LA, Annenberg Space Photo Exhibit Explores Water Issues
Before and after shots of our vanishing water depict a dramatic display through inspiring imagery at the "Water: Our Thirsty World" exhibit at
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Monsters, Miniatures, and Other Oddities: History's Most Extreme Mammals (Slideshow)
From a rhinoceros relative the size of four elephants to a kin of the shrew small enough to fit on the end of a pencil, the world of mammals -- both extinct and surviving to this day -- is full of extremes, and
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Sharks, Maggots, and Bats, Oh My: California Science Center Opens Environmental Exhibit
Guide the bobcat home on a tilt game. See maggots recycle rot. Compare insulation of feathers vs. blubber. Be a barnacle and find food. These are
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Santa Fe Enchanted With Eco-friendly Art
A year-long show focusing on the four elements is bringing well-known environmental
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PechaKucha for Haiti - saturday 20/02 worldwide
In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti last month.
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Eco-art to Save the Surf
"Titan's Rorschach" by environmental artist Felicity Nove. Some eco-artists are dumpster divers and practice reuse because found materials are cheaper than purchasing new canvases, paints and supplies. That's a good enough reason to upcycle. But
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Naturally Temperature-Conditioned Traditional Courtyard Homes: Ready for a Renaissance?
Recycled denim insulation and programmable thermostats are all well and good (really good), but people 4,500 years ago managed to keep their homes appropriately warm and cool without high technology -- and without wasting energy. How did they do it?
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Global Warming-Ready Waterpod Returns to Land
If you were near any of New York City's waterways last summer and early fall, you might have seen a strange, geodesic-dome-topped barge plying its way
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Re-Envisioning New York to Combat Sea-Level Rise
The New York art institutions MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center are looking on the bright side of the down economy: "As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed
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Shift Festival: KT Tunstall, Marcus Brigstocke + Friends Take Over Southbank Centre For Cape Farewell
This week melting arctic icebergs come to London in the form of music, comedy and fashion. The wonderful Cape Farewell organisation, which takes groups of artists, musicians
