'art environment' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to circumstances or conditions in which art is made or viewed, such as a particular setting or gallery. For example, "The artist was particularly inspired by the unique art environment of the museum."
"Heliotrope" is more an art environment than an installation, for it is to be experienced rather than simply viewed.
Written on the road, it is both disjointed and grounded in familiar Anderson territory: language, technology, art, environment, freedom, fear.
On a recent trip to Alabama, I'd hoped to visit the artist Charlie Lucas and his rural art environment at Pink Lily, near Montgomery.
What's striking about Ms. Export, in addition to her longevity in what has often been a hostile art environment, is her extraordinary diversity.
And it was here, years later, that he made a "garden of paradise," a sprawling art environment he lovingly tended for 30 years that many consider to be his greatest work.
(This art "environment" feels as airless as Jeff Koons's pristine Hoover vacuum cleaners from the 1980's, which are on view elsewhere in the show in dust-free, clear-acrylic boxes).
And a family foundation tends to finance the museum's acquisitions of large-scale art environments.
SELF-TAUGHT BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Outsider art environments, hand-built by untrained sculptors often expressing religious devotion, are notoriously fragile.
The African Village also stands among the most endangered art environments: Mr. Minter serves as the site's artist in residence, curator, docent and groundskeeper, and he just turned 70.
Given the size and fragility of the art environments the show did not travel, but Ms. Kohler said she would still consider sharing a smaller version with another museum.
He earned a B. A. from Yale University in 1989, majoring in the history of art and writing his senior thesis on African-American folk art, a project that enabled him to travel throughout the South, visiting folk artists and folk art environments.
