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Like any work of art, the value of Spiral Jetty \u2014 easily the most recognizable artwork in Utah \u2014 depends on how you look at it.

Stretching more than 320 miles, the Greater Paris Trail highlights the city’s myriad facets, from architectural showstoppers to everyday treasures, far from crowds.

Unlike most sculptors, Patrick Dougherty makes things that are meant not to last. And yet, a tremendous amount of work, hard physical work, careful

Happy first day of summer! In the spirit of what’s hopefully a season filled with sunny days spent lounging by the pool (fingers-crossed), let’s dive

The project, Richard Serra: Animal habitats live and stuffed... Roma, La Salita, 1966 is dedicated to the reconstruction, through photographic and arc

Happy first day of summer! In the spirit of what’s hopefully a season filled with sunny days spent lounging by the pool (fingers-crossed), let’s dive

For more than 30 years, Julie Bargmann, a landscape architect and founder of DIRT Studio (Dump It Right There) in Charlottesville, Virginia, has focus

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, original name Félix González-Torres, (born Nov. 26, 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba—died Jan. 9, 1996, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Cuban-born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain. Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez-Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready-made motifs and objects to ...

Bargmann cited Robert Smithson and Eva Hesse as influences and pointed to a road trip as an early turning point in her career, saying that afterward she “launched into a holistic approach to my work.”  The University of Virginia School of Architecture professor and D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right...

The landscape architect Julie Bargmann focuses on contaminated and forgotten urban sites. The results are both beautiful and socially conscious.