Vallisaari Island skyline. Courtesy Helsinki Biennial.
A recent count on the Biennial Foundation’s directory listed over 270 cities that host their own bi-yearly art event. That’s 270 cities around the world that become packed full of international art goers, armed with a cascade of tote bags, piles of printed exhibition material, and ever-increasing flight miles. It’s not hard to imagine the environmental toll these internationally sprawling shows can take.
Artists have embraced the topic of climate change for decades, with museums and galleries often exploring this theme in their exhibition programs too, but putting this urgent topic into real motion beyond the conceptual can be daunting. Yet with the tools now available to allow organizations to track and improve their carbon footprint, the art world can and must begin to tackle its own excesses.
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Doha: Chairman of Qatar Chamber Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani inaugurated yesterday three new factories which are subsidiaries of the National Paints Factories Co. W.L.L. which is situated in the Small & Medium Enterprises Zone.
The new factories are a new branch of the National Paints Factories Co. for manufacturing the industrial paints, the Royal Cans Factories Co W.L.L, and the Overseas Intermediate Chemicals Factory.
Held in adherence with the precautionary measures relating to COVID-19, the inauguration ceremony was attended by Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani, Chairman of the Qatari Businessmen Association; Mohammed Hassan Al Maliki, Assistant Undersecretary for Industry Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), and Saleh bin Ahmed Al Khulaifi, Director General of the National Paints Factories Co., in addition to a number of officials, businessmen and senior managers of consulting companies, contracting compan
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