An exhibition about migrant deaths at sea provides the information missing from the Swiss-Icelandic artist’s display in Venice
Visualizing climate change
Johanne Rahaman's "Water Rights" Welcomes Urban Beach Week Revelers Via Floating Art
During the Jim Crow era, community pools were immensely popular summertime gathering spots. After pools were integrated, however, white flight inevitably led pools in black neighborhoods to fall into disrepair, denying black communities access to them. Rahaman points out that beaches held equal significance for the same reason.
Artsy: As the Dead Sea Dries Out, an Artist Immortalizes It
The Salt Bride prints emanate an ethereal and quasi-spectral presence: They are indeed suspended in time, but also reminders that time is unstoppable, and will change the lake irreparably, just as it has altered Leah’s dress. Landau’s Dead Sea works are documents, a moving archive of a disappearing space.
The Verge: How street artist Swoon creates life-size dreamlike worlds
An immersive experience Artist Marie Lorenz explores the intersection of art and waterways
Barca Nostra – is this art?
At The ICA Watershed, John Akomfrah’s 'Purple' Mourns A Planet Lost
“Purple” is the second in a quartet of Akomfrah films in which the topic of climate change plays an important role. His first was "Vertigo Sea" (2015), which was shown at the 56th Venice Biennale. That film explored man's fraught relationship with the sea, including whaling and fishing practices and the sea’s role in slavery, migration and conflict.
How One Man Brought Conceptual Art to the Masses
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Dream to Walk on Water
Gowanus Visions: A Festival of Art and Action
The ‘Methodical Romance’ of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Set Sail and Never Returned
Ten months after Ader waved goodbye one last time, his boat Ocean Wave was discovered off the coast of Ireland. It was still bobbing in the sea, but it was broken down and partly submerged in water. Some food and four forms of identification for Ader were found on board, but otherwise the boat was eerily empty.