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Earthworks 2.0? Abstract Sand Drawings Land in Jersey, England
This might not be what Robert Smithson had in mind when he pioneered earthworks, but the results of the 2011 annual World Beach Art Championships in Jersey, U.K. are pretty impressive nonetheless —...
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Michael Heizer’s Boulder Starts its Slow Roll to LACMA
After many delays, complaints lodged, and millions spent, famous land artist Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” — an installation that involves transporting a 340-ton boulder from a quarry east of Los...
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Has LACMA’s “Levitated Mass” Boulder Become a Meme?
As we continue to monitor (via Twitter) the movements of the 340-ton boulder soon to be known as Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” while it makes its way from a quarry east of Los Angeles to the Los...
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After 11-Day Journey, Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” Lands at LACMA
Very early Saturday morning — well, closer to 8am for those of us on the East Coast — the 340-ton granite boulder that, once installed atop its custom-made trench will be land artist Michael Heizer’s...
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What’s Larry Gagosian Been Up To? Adding a Second Paris Gallery and...
Centuries from now, art historians will recall that the sun never set on Larry Gagosian’s empire. The megadealer has now added another feather in his cap: Carol Vogel reports that he plans to open a...
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Land Art, Meet Street Art: Vast Graffiti Exhibition Takes Shape in the...
Street art is, by definition, an urban phenomenon — it’s called “street art,” after all, not “dirt road art.” But a group of renowned street artists whose murals adorn buildings in cities around the...
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Catalogue for L.A. MOCA’s Land Art Retrospective Lands CAA Book Award
Co-curators Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon’s catalogue for their exhibition “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974″ at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has received the College Art...
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Simon Beck Makes Immense, Hugely Gratifying Etchings in the Snow
An Englishman with a dedicated attention to detail (and lots of time on his hands, and feet) is making lacework designs in the French Alps by trudging carefully with a pair of snowshoes. Working on...
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Could Cadillac Ranch, Texas’s Car Art Wonder, Be Impounded Over Sex Abuse...
Cadillac Ranch, the best-known of eccentric Texas oil heir, artist, and art patron Stanley Marsh 3’s outdoor installations in and around the town of Amarillo — a Land Art-like installation of ten...
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VIDEO: That Time People Mud-Wrestled in Walter De Maria’s “New York Earth Room”
While nothing much ever grows at “The New York Earth Room,” an austere and sublime installation of 280,000 pounds of earth in a 3,600 square-foot white-walled loft in Soho by conceptual and land...
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