The term “land art” was made famous by the monumental interventions that artists have carved into the great outdoors since the trend boomed in the 1960s and 70s. But a growing number of artists today ...

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 ...

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 ...

Making a pilgrimage to one of the most iconic and remote land art installations of our time, The Lightning Field (1977) by American sculptor Walter De Maria, in the high desert of western New Mexico, ...

Indigenous artists explore their relationship with land, sustainability, and identity. Indigenous artists delve into their profound relationship with land and its symbiosis with art in Indigenous ...

For most of her life, Teresita Fernández had encountered in person as many artworks by Land Art trailblazer Robert Smithson as most people had—which is to say, zero. “For most of us, the little we ...

Lita Albuquerque redraws her “Malibu Line,” an ultra-vivid blue earthwork that connects earth, ocean and sky. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Malibu, Calif. Lita Albuquerque made a strange sort of ...

Mary Miss filed a breach of contract suit against the Des Moines Art Center last year after it moved to deaccession “Greenwood Pond: Double Site.” Mary Miss, "Greenwood Pond: Double Site" (1989–96), ...