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At Hong Kong's Tai Kwun Contemporary museum, artists from Palestine to Bangladesh use rituals to redress environmental degradation.

Opening at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Green Snake: women-centred ecologies gathers more than 60 works from 30 artists and collectives in an exhibition that draws on mythologies and world views with women at their heart.

Ophiolite, a type of green rock with serpentinite textures, is also the name of an ongoing exhibition in Beijing displaying artworks by creators from China and France and showing how today's art world has embraced ecological and environmental issues.

THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, modern and contemporary art in the West sought either to cheat history or to travesty it. To cheat history is to outrun it in gestures aimed at utopian schemes (as envisioned by Suprematism or the artists of De Stijl) or dystopian destruction (as in Futurism or some variants of Dada). Among modernist avant-gardes, history offered a necessary dialectical framework for its own supersession—this is why the rhetoric of revolution remains so appealing and ubiquitous in accounts of modern art. Paradoxically, this legacy has been codified or canonized (and certainl...

Documenta 15's emphasis on community-building suggests that an NGO mindset drives its themes. But there's still a lot to consider.