News
Land Artist Awarded Nearly $1M in Iowa Museum Settlement
Mary Miss filed a breach of contract suit against the Des Moines Art Center last year after it moved to deaccession "Greenwood Pond: Double Site.”
Land Art
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Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” Added to National Register of Historic Places
The 1,500-foot-long sculpture on the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is considered one of the most important works of the Land Art movement.
Art
Lita Albuquerque’s Longing for Tunisia
The prolific artist recreated her 1978 landwork “Malibu Line” on the site of her former family home in June, marking a new chapter in her cosmological oeuvre.
Art
The Geometry in Motion of Nancy Holt
A survey at Gropius Bau frames Holt as an artist committed to the human body’s actions and dimensions, and its perceptual and cognitive boundaries.
News
Court Stops Iowa Art Center From Destroying Artist’s Land Installation
A judge ruled on Monday that the Des Moines Art Center must pause its planned demolition of Mary Miss’s “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” installation.
News
Artist Seeks Restraining Order to Prevent Land Artwork’s Demolition
The Des Moines Art Center cited the “ephemeral” nature of artist Mary Miss’s original materials in its decision to destroy the work.
News
Iowa Museum Plans to Demolish Land Art Installation
The museum cited the "ephemeral" nature of artist Mary Miss's original materials as well as Iowa's extreme climate.
Art
The Unsung Women of American Land Art
Groundswell is a crucial reexamination of important but under-recognized artists working with the land.
Art
Seeking Histories and Futures in Soil
Today’s artists often refrain from imprinting their vision upon the land, instead bringing the soil into the gallery as an archive of nature-human interactions.
Opinion
Why We Never Visited Michael Heizer’s City
We counted down the minutes until we hit the stretch of highway closest to the installation, but we didn’t stop.
Art
Some Important Questions About Artist Legacies
How is legacy defined, who defines it, whom does it serve?
Art
Art Between Land and Self
How do we consider land-inspired art in an age when huge swaths of our shared world are being clear cut, mined, drilled, and desertified?