Long before Instagram’s developers were even born, Gianfranco Gorgoni made the abstract concept of land art accessible to audiences around the world. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists like ...

Groundswell: Women of Land Art is a milestone exhibition that just opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, and that reassesses and reasserts the importance of a coterie of women in the ...

The vast, misunderstood field of land art will be revisited this fall in a historical survey and new projects on farms and within city limits. “Orisons” by Marguerite Humeau, 2023, curated and ...

In his new documentary, Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art, filmmaker and art historian James Crump digs beneath the surface to explore the personal lives, artworks, and historical treatment of ...

What does it take to be a collector of land art? By its very nature, the genre has its share of challenges for anyone wishing to make the work their own. Directly embedded in the great outdoors, land ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Beverly Buchanan set out to create a monumental work of ...

Judy Chicago, Smoke Bodies from Women and Smoke (1972), fireworks performance, performed in the California desert (© Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo courtesy Through the ...

Look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today. EARTHWORKS. LAND ART. EARTH ART. Whatever you call it, we look at what it means to make art out in nature and ...

Drawing with Both Eyes Closed: Bruce Nauman’s “No Mistakes” Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler, T.S.O.Y.W., 2007, two-channel film in 16 mm transferred to video, 200 minutes. Production still. Photo: Amy ...

You can see a lot of weird stuff on Google Maps. If you’re taking a digital stroll around the world with the software’s Street View function, it’s not uncommon to see people intentionally trolling the ...