Smithson Speaks
A new portion of Robert Smithson's 1972 oral history, recently posted by the Archives of American Art, illuminates the artist's final career phase.
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Collecting Land Art: How Earthworks Challenge Patronage
At the Frick's symposium on Land art, participants focused narrowly on access and ownership, sidestepping thornier issues of control.
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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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New Foundation Aims to Further Legacy of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt
Based for now in New Mexico, the organization is beginning a foundational planning stage—with Lisa Le Feuvre appointed as executive director.
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Suburban Futurism
Arguing that urban sprawl is the dominant growth paradigm of the present and future, the author advocates a close examination of dynamic, amorphous metroplexes like Phoenix and Dubai.
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Remember Us?: Around Basel’s Museums During Art Basel
On shows at Kunstmuseum and Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Basel, Schaulager, and the Fondation Beyeler
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Order and Chaos: From the Diaries of Eva Hesse
A documentary on the postwar sculptor Eva Hesse (1936–70), directed by Marcie Begleiter, screens at Film Forum in New York this week. In our Summer 1983 issue, historian Ellen H. Johnson compiled exce…
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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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From the Archives: Earthscapes, Landworks and Oz
In big country you do not see in the ordinary way. There is no "middle distance," only "near" and far," the dust at your feet and the haze on the horizon.
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