Weekend Reading List: What is Art’s Responsibility in the Age of Climate Change?
Stan Lee’s comic book universe; Cerith Wyn Evans on complexity; and is the art world really just about the money?
Woolsey fire, 12 November 2018, California. Courtesy: Getty Images/AFP; photograph: Robyn Beck
Woolsey fire, 12 November 2018, California. Courtesy: Getty Images/AFP; photograph: Robyn Beck
With wild fires raging across California this week in what is now being called the state’s ‘deadliest fire’, we look to Roy Scranton’s thoughts on climate change, and Evan Moffit writing on art in the age of global warming: ‘We need an art that thinks of the future by turning to the present – built not to last but to shape the here and now.’
Marvel Comics’s mastermind Stan Lee died aged 95 this week. We revisit the genealogies of Greek gods, superheroes and comic book villains: ‘Genealogy is popular because it places our lives within the grand sweep of history. It is, like the comic book, a form of escape literature.’
Jailed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam has been granted bail, after spending 100 days in prison for spreading ‘propaganda and false information’. Skye Arundhati Thomas wrote for us in August about the threats to personal liberty across the region, with ‘freedom of speech’ growing ever more elusive.
Cerith Wyn Evans has been announced as this year’s winner of the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Hettie Judah reviewed the prize exhibition in October, describing Wyn Evans’s Compositions for 37 flutes (in two parts) (2018) as ‘a refreshing piece of ethereal fantasy’. ‘The idea of making work in a rarefied atmosphere is something that I’m stimulated by – a notion of encryption, of actually making someone aware that the invisible is also perceivable,’ the artist told us in 2002.
Nathaniel Kahn’s new HBO art world documentary The Price of Everything (2018) opens in the UK this week. Don’t miss Dan Fox taking to task its hyperventilating representation of money, power and art: ‘I want to see an art world documentary that visits a non-profit art space in Peckham on a wet Friday afternoon when nobody comes through the gallery. I’d like to watch a film that depicts a freelance critic juggling multiple jobs to make rent, and shows you artists creating their own art school because they can’t afford the official ones.’
Woolsey.，2018年11月12日，加利福尼亚。礼貌：盖蒂图片/法新社；照片：罗宾·贝克。本周在加利福尼亚州肆虐的野火被称作“最致命的火灾”，我们来看看罗伊·斯克兰顿对气候变化的看法，以及埃文·莫菲特对全球变暖时代的艺术的写作。“我们需要一种通过转向现在来思考未来的艺术——不是为了延续而是为了塑造当下。”惊奇漫画的创始人斯坦·李本周去世，享年95岁。我们重温希腊神祗、超级英雄和漫画中的恶棍们的家谱：“家谱很流行，因为它把我们的生活置于历史的大范围之内。就像漫画书一样，它是一种逃亡文学形式。被监禁的孟加拉国摄影师沙希德·阿拉姆因散布“宣传和虚假信息”被判入狱100天后，被准予保释。斯凯·阿伦达蒂·托马斯（Skye Arundhati Thomas）8月份给我们写信，谈到了整个地区对人身自由的威胁，“言论自由”变得越来越难以捉摸。Cerith Wyn Evans被宣布为今年的Hepopy奖得主雕塑。Hettie Judah在10月份审查了该奖项展览，将Wyn Evans的37支长笛(两部分)(2018)的作品描述为“一幅令人耳目一新的空想曲”。2002年，这位艺术家告诉我们，“在稀薄的环境中创作作品的想法——加密的概念，让人们意识到无形的东西也是可以感知的。”（2018）本周在英国开幕。不要错过丹·福克斯(Dan Fox)对金钱、权力和艺术的夸张表现提出质疑：“我想看一部艺术世界纪录片，在潮湿的星期五下午，当没有人从美术馆走过时，它访问了佩克汉姆的非盈利艺术空间。我想看一部描绘自由女神的电影。”批评家为了租金而忙碌于多份工作，还告诉你艺术家们自己创办艺术学校，因为他们负担不起官方艺术学校的费用。喜剧·赫普沃斯雕塑奖FRIZE特稿 ARThing编译
