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International organisations form charter for a sustainable visual art sector

The new Art Charter for Climate Action unites over 1,000 global members committed to system-wide change

South African gallery Southern Guild opening a permanent space in Los Angeles

The Cape Town-based art and design gallery will inaugurate its Los Angeles location in February of 2024

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Indigenous collective’s ‘World’s UnFair’ in New York imagines a decolonised future

New Red Order’s Long Island City project turns the models of past World’s Fairs on their heads

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Doug Aitken video about consequences of human and animal migration greets travellers at New Jersey train station

Presented by the Princeton University Art Museum, “migration (empire)” speaks to the rising risks of climate change and displacement

Excavations for Magazzino Italian Art’s expansion allowed the centre to finally create a rare Michelangelo Pistoletto Land Art piece

The outdoor installation, conceived in 2003 but never executed until now, was unveiled on the Italian artist’s 90th birthday

David Adjaye creates his first permanent public sculpture at St Louis museum

The rammed earth sculpture at the Griot Museum of Black History was commissioned as part of Counterpublic triennial

A maritime museum shifts its focus to ocean health

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis Rockman

Sculptural symbol of mourning by Jim Hodges unveiled at New York’s Aids Memorial Park

The work, “Craig’s closet”, honours the more than 100,000 New Yorkers who have died of Aids

'New York is so influential in our industry': the Gallery Climate Coalition sees its newest chapter as essential

The international sustainability group now has six branches working toward a greener art industry

St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial puts action and land repatriation at the fore

The triennial considers the city’s history of displacement with public works by New Red Order, Anita Fields and Jordan Weber, among others

Is The Art Show the first green fair?

A new roadmap developed by US dealers offers a practical guide to improving sustainability

The museum bees pollinating Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Museum maintains two rooftop beehives, and several more New York museums are joining the apiculture craze

Two recent initiatives seek to turn art world sustainability pledges into action

Climate Action 8x8 and the Gallery Climate Coalition’s active membership initiative aim to support system-wide change

The environmental toll of the art world: how are fairs contending with Miami's fragile environment?

As the climate crisis worsens, some art fairs are starting to take responsibility for the impact of their operations

Roaming climate change museum pops up in New York—and sets sights on a permanent space

Climate Museum’s pop-up exhibition in Manhattan hopes to spur visitors to action, and raise money for a long-term venue

Cincinnati’s FotoFocus Biennial traces global issues, from climate change to discrimination

The 2022 edition of the largest photography biennial in the US includes over 100 projects that explore the theme of “world record”

New Brooklyn art space launches with exhibition celebrating birthdays of people of colour killed by police violence

Worthlessstudios is expanding upon the digital project 1-800 Happy Birthday, debuted in a physical form at Nada New York in May

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Cara Despain explores the shrouded history of US nuclear weapons development

The exhibition offers a lens through which to view the current threat of nuclear war

Phone booth installation at Nada New York fair plays birthday wishes for people of colour killed by police

The popup installation gives physical form to the digital project ‘1-800 Happy Birthday’ and comes ahead of an exhibition opening this autumn

Art world organisations, galleries and artists helped fund conservation of a Peruvian cloud forest

Over 40 donors supported the climate action led by Galleries Commit and Art to Acres, which will see nearly 200,000 acres preserved

Artist-led campaign urges climate action across California

The initiative A Cool Million, launched by three artist-led collectives, features climate-themed public artworks and aims to preserve one million acres

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Five New York shows explore the pandemic’s effects two years after the city's first Covid-19 lockdowns

From Renate Aller’s touching photos of sidewalk gatherings to Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu’s vaccine-inspired Mongol Zurag paintings, artists are reflecting on the darkest days of the initial outbreak

New resource-sharing website seeks to cut art industry waste and give new life to reusable materials

Debuted in a beta phase over a year ago, Barder.art officially launched during Frieze Los Angeles

Experience the world as a spider in Tomás Saraceno’s new exhibition at The Shed

The Argentine artist’s first major US survey features an immersive, multi-sensory, 95-foot diameter installation that gives viewers the experience of being in a spider web

Neon art installation begins tour of US states where abortion rights are threatened

The month-long tour of Alicia Eggert’s neon text work ‘OURs’ was organised by Planned Parenthood to pressure lawmakers and raise awareness of efforts to restrict abortion rights

Exhibitions’ carbon footprints come under growing scrutiny

New reports from Artists Commit, which analyse the life cycle of a show, join an increasingly broad push for transparency and data sharing to promote a more climate-conscious sector

The Obama portraits arrive at the Brooklyn Museum

The portraits of former President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald continue their national tour in New York

Moca Los Angeles follows success in halting solar farm near Michael Heizer Earthpiece with announcement of Frankenthaler grant to support solar energy project

The museum plans to use the grant funds to convert Moca Geffen to renewable power sources, the first step in making Moca Los Angeles completely net zero energy

American Gothic landmark Lyndhurst Mansion opens unrestored pool building as exhibition space

The artist and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos has created a site-specific installation that provides a glimpse into the Gilded Age in the Hudson Valley

Your carriage awaits: Beekman Family Coach undergoes live conservation at the New-York Historical Society

Research on the historic piece of decorative art has revealed some surprising evidence that many of its original materials are intact