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Green New Deal for the arts
What creative ideas are there for sustainability and climate protection in the art world?
by Luwi Funke,
September 13, 2021
While artists have been addressing the issue of climate change in their work for years, the art industry as such has been quiet for a long time. With the Corona crisis, problems have now come to light whose solutions can have a positive impact on the climate crisis as well.
Climate activism in the museum
Mashed potatoes on Achilles' heel
by Bettina Röhl,
October 28, 2022
One of the first requirements you learn as a child is not to touch anything in a museum because the exhibits are vulnerable and irreplaceable. Liquid mashed potatoes, blood-red tomato soup, and superglue in the exhibit space trigger ventricular fibrillation in culture buffs. Climate protection groups like the Letzte Generation (Last Generation) are now targeting this very weak point.
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