A sense of adventure powered the American land art movement of the 1960s and 70s. Artists went in search of remote and untamed places in which to dream up massive site-specific sculptures. Some of ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. You probably recognize land art, ...

Maren Hassinger, Pink Trash (1982), installation and performance in three New York City parks (© Maren Hassinger; photo by Horace Brockington, courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery) DALLAS — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artists from around the world, including Mary Bourne, are transforming a secluded Norwegian island into a museum where landscapes become works of art. ©Land Art Museum The Land Art Museum emerged from ...

For centuries, artists have blurred the line between nature and creation. In the 1960s and 1970s, this became a popular movement in the art world, as pioneering artists increasingly incorporated ...

In the long afternoon of last year’s summer solstice, Ernest Edwin Higbee Jr. pulled a white Chevrolet Tahoe off the main road of Alamo, Nevada, driving past spindly creosote bush and stalky Nevada ...

Under the Nasher Sculpture Center’s garden runs a stream. In a dry year like this one, it’s little more than a trickle, if the water flows at all. But when it rains, the underground stream can be ...