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Visitors to Stockton’s Haggin Museum will be the first in the country to see a new collection that traces the history and impact of the environmental movement through art. “The Long View | From Conservation to Sustainability | Works from the Bank of America Collection” is making its inaugural exhibition Thursday, May 6, at The Haggin, which reopened recently after a year of being mostly shuttered due to the pandemic. Beginning in the mid-19th century, “The Long View” examines the evol...

Kyrsten Sinema could be the 50th vote for — or against — Bidens ambitious agenda. So what does she want? Andrew Romano Last week, President Biden came before Congress to kick-start the next phase of his presidency, calling on lawmakers to pass $4.1 trillion worth of legislation meant to modernize America’s infrastructure, combat climate change, expand education and shore up the safety net for working families — “a fundamental reorientation of the role of government not...

Zhu Theres always been an elemental vibe to Zhus music. Tracks evoke feelings of metal, fire and ice, hitting hard and heating up before dropping back into a low simmer. Its an alluring amalgamation thats made Zhu one of the more compelling artists in the scene since breaking out with his starmaking track "Faded" in 2014. Now, the producer born Steve Zhu is back with his third album -- and first since 2018 --  Dreamland 2021. Much of the album, out on Astralwerks and featuring collaborators i...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Once upon a time, you could stand on the roof of 548 West 22nd Street, up among the water towers of Manhattan, with views out over the Hudson to New Jersey, and watch the city shimmer and reflect on the surfaces of one of Dan Graham’s glass pavilions. It was a New York moment. You could go downstairs, following the blue and green glow of a Dan Flavin light sculpture lining the stairwell, and see shows by leaders in contemporary European and American art re...

Land Art: investigating humanity’s relationship to nature The 1960s movement popularized taking art outside of the museum Upon first glance, Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking (1967) appears to be a simple monochrome photograph of a grassy field with trees in the distance. The photo, however, only serves as a form of documentation of the artwork itself, which is Long’s interaction with the terrain. This avant-garde form of artmaking is classified as Land Art. Also known as Earth art, ...

Art Industry News: The New York Times Calls Artnet’s Wet Paint the ‘Essential’ Chronicle of NYC’s Downtown Art Scene + Other Stories Plus, Sothebys will sell off Karl Lagerfelds collection and the Cy Twombly Foundation sues the Louvre over a renovated gallery. The Wet Paint hat. Photo courtesy Nate Freeman. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, March 8. NEED-T...

Double Negative, The Art Newspaper reports. Visitors to the work, which consists of two fifty-foot-deep trenches spanning a remote natural canyon, would be greeted by the sight of the Battle Born Solar Project, which is slated to occupy some 9,000 acres atop the nearby Mormon Mesa. “We have been told there would still be access to  Double Negative, but the power of the place would be lost forever,” says Lisa Childs, founder of the grassroots initiative Save Our Mesa, which is additiona...

The north trench of Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, one of two 30ft-wide, 50ft-deep trenches created on the Mormon Mesa in 1969 Photo: Thure Johnson A planned solar power plant on the Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada could affect the viewing of Michael Heizer’s monumental Double Negative (1969)—a land art installation of two 50 ft-deep trenches dug across a natural canyon on the eastern end of the remote desert site. The Battle Born Solar Project under developmen...

Print The Desert X biennial staging site-specific, sometimes monumental artworks across the Coachella Valley announced its project lineup this week, and a standout among the 13 artists is Judy Chicago. The 81-year-old dating to the 1950s, has long been injecting the feminine into male-dominated land art. Colored smoke in her fireworks pieces, which she’s been producing since the late 1960s, is meant to soften or “feminize” the surrounding landscape. Her new work for Desert X, which opens...

In a recent Slog AM, Stranger writer Jasmyne Keimig sleepily wrote that state Senator Mark Mullet would serve another six-year term after narrowly winning the 5th Legislative District race over challenger Ingrid Anderson. But, as many readers pointed out, state senators only serve four-year terms. She regrets the error. Nathalie Graham, who covers city hall for The Stranger, regrets each time she thought covering a new Tree Ordinance update was worthwhile. It never was. Quibi regrets launch...