With two months to go to the UN’s COP21 climate change summit (30 November-11 December), Paris’s annual dusk-to-dawn arts festival, the Nuit Blanche (white night), is getting a green makeover. The artistic director José-Manuel Gonçalves has invited more than 30 French and international artists to address the theme for the 14th edition. Environmentally-minded works range from Kacey Wong’s makeshift Chinese temple in recycled wood in the Marais to Erik Samakh’s amplified sound recordings of birds, bees and frogs in Parc Monceau and Zhenchen Liu’s grid of coloured ice blocks in front of the city hall that will melt as the night wears on. Some of the events will be more than a one-night affair: the cultural space run by Fondation EDF is opening Artificial Climates, an exhibition organised by the Centre Pompidou curator Camille Morineau with 30 works by artists including Yoko Ono, Hans Haacke and Spencer Finch, which runs to 28 February.
