Climate Action in the Art World
As part of the collaboration between CIMAM and Lund Humphries, all titles featured on CIMAM’s Online Bookshelf—hosted on the Lund Humphries website—are available to CIMAM members at a 25% discount. On this occasion, we are pleased to support the promotion of Climate Action in the Art World, the latest book by Annabel Keenan, published in May 2025 in collaboration with Sotheby’s Institute of Art as part of the acclaimed Hot Topics in the Art World series.
- A call to action to the art world to initiate sustainable practices in the face of global climate change
Climate Action in the Art World, which is part of Lund Humphries' Hot Topics in the Art World series, published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art, is an urgent call-to-action that reviews the work that has been undertaken to date to create a more sustainable art world and proposes the next steps in system-wide change. Annabel Keenan identifies the main sustainability issues for the art industry, arguing that artists and art activists have led the way in creating awareness of climate change, and evaluates progress to date on climate-action commitments by the various sectors of the art world, offering examples of best practice.
Uncompromising in its messages, Climate Action in the Art World is essential reading for all art professionals, from artists to curators to art handlers, as well as for anyone seeking an accessible entry-point to a topic which is unfortunately only getting (literally) hotter.
'Keenan has given us an essential guide to the vital and rapidly growing intersection of climate action and the arts. In ways that are not yet often recognised, these two areas of endeavour need each other to succeed. Anyone practising in either field should read this concise and excellent book.' – Miranda Massie, founder and Director of the Climate Museum
Annabel Keenan is a New York-based writer and independent curator specialising in contemporary art and sustainability. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Artsy, Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, Hyperallergic, and Artillery Magazine, among other publications.