Radical Nature

Here's something you might want to take the kiddies to over the summer holidays. On the other hand, you might not. It depends whether you think installation thingies and a stuffed wolf qualify as art and/or kiddie entertainment. Radical Nature – Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 opened at the Barbican Art Gallery in London on Friday and continues until 18 October. The graphic shows Tomas Saraceno's Flying Garden (2006) first shown at Sudeley Castle. "Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism." If that quote doesn't put you off, nothing will, not even the admission price of £6.00. Looks naff to me, and I'm green.