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Jul 24, 2008

Eco-Friendly Art or Not?

We thought that Anthony Gormley's winning proposal for the fourth plinth was the most ecological art possible: a different person standing on top of a column for an hour, all day, every day, for 100 days. Some commenters at TreeHugger disagreed since people had to travel to get to it and the structure itself wasn't green. But Martin Creed, another English artist, may have upped the stakes with Work No 850, his entry for the controversial Turner Prize. It consists of a runner sprinting through the ga...