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April 13, 2026

Artist Works With Indigenous Communities To Build a “Water Sanctuary” on Salt Flats in Argentina

According to the World Economic Forum, extracting a ton of lithium—to manufacture rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles—requires around 2.2 million liters (almost 600,000 gallons) of water. While this amount would put any region of the world under environmental stress, it is particularly felt around the arid region of Salinas Grandes, a salt flat in northern Argentina that sits on one of the world’s largest lithium reserves.

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April 5, 2026

Artist Offers Haunting Meditation on the 2025 L.A. Fires for the Whitney Biennial

Early last year, wildfires tore through Los Angeles, burning 57,000 acres of land and destroying more than 16,000 structures. Among them was Kelly Akashi’s home. On the evening of January 7, 2025, the artist evacuated the Spanish colonial bungalow that doubled as her studio, taking her cat and a few keepsakes with her. But by the time she returned to her lot in Altadena, only a brick chimney remained.

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