The environmentally minded TBA21-Academy has commissioned research-intensive artworks related to the warming of the world’s oceans and issues that may inevitably end result. More and more institutions are following similar traces to devise scientific endeavors in increasingly ambitious ways. After four years sequestered in China, dissident artist Ai Weiwei received his passport again in July.
In London, National Gallery workers went on an indefinite strike in August to protest privatization plans (which strikers within the museum’s Trafalgar Square deem unnecessary) that may affect some four hundred worker roles. In October, the strikers resumed work and reached an agreement that, while …
