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Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (1970), his 1,500-foot-long coil of basalt rock that juts into the Great Salt Lake in Utah. When determining where to…

'Bending the River,' a project by artist Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, will draw water from the L.A. River to irrigate Los Angeles State Historic Park.

'Bending the River,' a project by artist Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, will draw water from the L.A. River to irrigate Los Angeles State Historic Park.

For decades, land art has been the province of three men. Curator Leigh Arnold and the Nasher are aiming to expand the canon with a groundbreaking new exhibition.

"Groundswell" is a significant new understanding of the canon.

Groundswell: Women of Land Art is a milestone exhibition that just opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas

As I was talking with London-based artist Helen Marten, my mind kept turning to Robert Smithson’s assertion that his “sense of language is that it is matter and not ideas—i.e. ‘printed matter.’” There are many ways to understand Smithson’s statement, but one would be to take him seriously and to try to understand language as material, as stuff, as a medium with which a visual artist can create.

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"LET US SUPPOSE," WROTE George Kubler, "that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to…

Walter De Maria (1935–2013) almost never gave interviews. In a rare one from 1972, he mentioned that he had conceived twenty-four three-dimensional