Fashion Designer Rick Owens Went on a Land Art Bus Tour to Michael Heizer’s Fabled ‘City’
Owens and Lamy join a select club to have ever seen 'City' in person.
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‘The Story of Our Civilization’: Land Art Symposium Explores Earthy Tales of ‘Uncollectibility’
The event in New York contemplated work by Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy Holt—plus the habits of collectors like Leonard Riggio.
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Brancusi and America
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…
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Then and Now: Reaching for the Stars, Artists Capture and Replicate the Awe-Inspiring and the Invisible
From George Inness, who "translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour," to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like "voices of aspiration, joy or fear," to Jackson Pollock, who, Robert Rose…
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A Dialogue with Nature: Dennis Oppenheim at Storm King
“Dennis Oppenheim: Terrestrial Studio,” this summer’s major exhibition at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, focuses solely on the artist’s unique engagement with the land. While not a fu…
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This Land Is Your Land: Earthworks on YouTube
As A.i.A. senior editor William S. Smith pointed out in his essay on Michael Heizer (whose 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April…
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One to One
At New York’s Whitney Museum, a full-scale 1970 photographic projection by Michael Heizer brings home the immersiveness, the being-there (even if only vicariously), that is essential to the Land art a…
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From the Archives: Earthscapes, landworks and Oz
Dave Hickey tackled Land art with characteristic vigor in an essay for A.i.A.'s September-October 1971 issue. With occasional detours into country music and The Wizard of Oz, he speculated on what see…
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Environmental Art: Proposals for a Future World
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde's energy-conscious projects—a bike path, condensed-smog jewelry, an outdoor air cleaner, an illuminated dance floor and various large-scale urban light projections—posi…
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