“I’m Living in a Sacrifice Zone” — Women Speak Out for Climate Justice
WECAN co-founder and Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake noted, “How we treat the earth is how we treat women. It’s a violent paradigm.”
Category: Spotlight
“Wrath — Force of Nature” at Wave Hill
“Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath — Force of Nature” at Wave Hill in the Bronx brings together twelve artists who have their fingers on the pulse of climate change and extreme weather.
Megyn Kelly Cross-Examines Donald Trump
Trump can go around telling people, “I think Megyn behaved very nasty to me,” but it really makes him sound like a crybaby. Not the tough negotiator that he claims he will be with Putin, China, and Iran.
Martin O’Malley: Where Is He on the Environment?
The Baltimore Sun has a long history of editorials calling into question O’Malley’s lack of political will around hard environmental challenges — particularly those that could damage his standing with donors and specific constituencies.
Campus SaVE Act Responds to College Campus Sexual Violence
There is an important backstory to the fight for protecting students from sexual violence. It dates back to 1986, when 19-year-old student Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dormitory room at Lehigh University.
Shifting Sands: New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene
The dialogue went far deeper than a mere discussion of the current landscape of the Bronx art scene. It raised questions, and some hackles, about competing community needs, gentrification, constituencies that are too frequently powerless, and big money.
American Petroleum Institute Ads Target Smog Rules
The American Petroleum Institute is disseminating a series of ads that have an Orwellian quality about them.
“Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life”
Adriana Zavala, guest curator, qualified Kahlo’s home as an “extension of her personal cosmology,” saying, “There are still things to learn about Kahlo.”
Ellen Weider: Drypoints in a Digital Age
Weider is preoccupied with an examination of domestic objects. Her visual terrain is repeatedly populated with diaristic contemplations of ordinary furniture: dressers, chairs, tables, beds.
Air Pollution is Making Me Anxious
A new study proposes that air pollution may impact mental health.
