American Avocet

Black Neck Stilts

Western Grebe

Yuma Clapper Rail

(Some of the more than 100 species of birds that can be found in the Las Arenitas Artificial Wetland near Mexicali, Mexico. Photos courtesy the Sonoran Institute.) 

...art’s political and moral effects are convincing only when driven by deep, in many ways selfish, psychological needs. 

--Roberta Smith

—This is not a time for subversion. It is a time for affirmative action; as social life implodes, as solidarity is under threat, art and culture feel compelled to take on a role in the social sphere as community work: participatory art, process-based art, etc. The risk is that most of these projects will remain purely aesthetic, and appear as nothing more than amateur social work. Or worse: a lubricant for neoliberal development. Intervention into politics is the only real option. Temporary and fleeting subversive artistic interventions will not change the world or save the planet.

--Lieven de Cauter

The Clifton Forebay: intake point for the California Aqueduct

"I don't need more art-world bullshit to make my life difficult." 

--Mike Kelley