The Lightning Field: How Walter De Maria’s Land Art Lodestar Communes with Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, and Web3
The beguiling destination evokes wonderings about Blood Meridian, The Confidence-Man, and space-oil salesmen like Elon Musk.
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Batman Cover Goes for $2.4 M., Walter De Maria Sites Get Upgrades, and More: Morning Links for June 17, 2022
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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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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Muses: Songwriter Steve Gunn on Robert Irwin, Hilma af Klint, and ‘The Lightning Field’
The musician has a new album out now on Matador Records.
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Sound Disposition: A Personal, Peculiar Top 10 of a Memorable Year in Art
Anything like a clear through-line connecting what I marked down as the year’s most affecting shows has proven elusive. As happens often when in my own head, though, I can’t help but think of…
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From the Archives: TV—The Next Medium
On the occasion of the exhibition "Nam June Paik: In Character," at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (through January 1, 2018), A.i.A. delved into the archives. Writer John S. Margolies took on…
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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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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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