Bloodflowers

Bloodflowers

To produce cosmetically perfect blooms for export to the U.S. and Europe, Columbia's 80,000 flower industry workers, mostly women, perform long hours of physically grueling and hazardous labor.

Pollinators

Pollinators

Pollinators— most often bees, butterflies, birds, and bats are critical to fruit and seed production. The pesticide Imidacloprid is believed to be one of the main causes for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) amongst bees.

Flores Muertas

Flores Muertas

The print series Flores Muertas depicts the issue of where our flowers come from, what kind of hidden real costs and dangers lie behind them and questions global capitalism as a real danger to people and the environment.

Murcielago Santo

Murcielago Santo

The crucified skeleton bat is a reminder to us, that human induced environmental hazards will most likely cause many species to go extinct.

RIP - Andrew Wyeth

Posted by: Henrik

Tagged in: museum

Henrik

Sad week for the art world.


Obama in The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Posted by: Henrik

Tagged in: news , museum

Henrik

Shepard Fairey's Portrait of Barack Obama was purchased by The National Portrait Gallery through a generous gift of Tony and Heather Podesta. Will it raise to the fame of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe one day? Shepard certainly nailed the timing exactly right and he has already participated in a little piece of amazing history.

 


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