Art Makes a Statement for Business, Too

By JEAN EFRON

Published: March 31, 2012

Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times

Jean Efron, an art adviser, with a sculpture by Elizabeth Catlett at Terrell Place in Washington. In a former life, the building was a protest site against racial segregation, and “we decided to reflect this event,” Ms. Efron says.

Corporate buyers are looking to complete their space in an interesting way. They also select paintings, photography and sculptures for their employees’ enjoyment and to project a certain image. Some view their art as an extension of their corporate work life. I enjoy the challenge of coming up with a plan that reflects what a client wants to say about itself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/jobs/art-as-an-extension-of-the-corporate-image.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=art%20makes%20a%20statement&st=cse

“Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir founded the ecoarttech collaborative in 2005 in order to explore environmental issues and convergent media and technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective, including art, digital studies, philosophy, literature, and eco-criticism. For ecoarttech, the term “environment” does not refer only to nature or geographic spaces; rather, we understand it as part of an interwoven network of biological, cultural, mental, and digital spaces, and we imagine the health of each as indistinguishable from the health of others. In the words of Gregory Bateson, the planet is part of humans’ “eco-mental system”: “if Lake Erie is driven insane [by pollution], its insanity is incorporated in the larger system of your thought and experience.”"

http://www.ecoarttech.net/