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Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living

What contributions has contemporary art made to address the world’s environmental crises? This was the question posed by co-curators Martin Germann and Tsubaki Reiko in the four-chapter group exhibition of 34 artists at the Mori Art Museum, “Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living.” The private museum atop a Tokyo skyscraper was, paradoxically, an appropriate venue for this subject, as the postwar industrialization of the global economy that has produced

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