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 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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From the Archives: Decoding O’Doherty
In our December 2007 issue, on the occasion of a traveling retrospective, critic Saul Ostrow parsed O'Doherty's oeuvre, which the artist has produced through five distinct alter egos, most notably Pat…
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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
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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