NewsLand art
Plans scrapped for solar project that would disrupt Michael Heizer’s Double Negative
A solar farm was cancelled after months of backlash from local residents
NewsNancy Holt
Nancy Holt’s archives head to Smithsonian, opening the door for more land art works
From astronomical observations to personal photographs, the 50,000-piece collection includes documentation of unrealised works that the artist's foundation hopes to one day complete
NewsLand art
Nevada Museum of Art launches year-long focus on Land Art in the high desert
The museum has also announced the forthcoming programming for its triennial Art and Environment Conference
InterviewArtist interview
Confronting Land Art and the Western frontier: Lucy Raven on how the two US cultural legacies influenced her new works at Dia Chelsea
New York-based artist's exhibitions opens at Dia Art Foundation's new and improved space in New York
NewsMichael Heizer
Nevada solar power project threatens Michael Heizer’s land art sculpture Double Negative
Local activists are petitioning to protect the artist’s monumental work on the Mormon Mesa
NewsLand art
Fantasy island: Holt/Smithson Foundation invites artists to create a new work for coastal Maine islet
Five artists have been asked to spend the next three years imagining what they could do with an uninhabited site
AnalysisLand art
Destructive, sensationalised and maybe not even art: the short and vague legacy of the Utah monolith
After the dismantling of the mysterious monolith that appeared in Utah, environmentalists and art experts alike say the object may have done more harm than good
NewsLand art
Second monolith mysteriously appears in Romania—one day after another vanishes from the Utah desert
Another unattributed metal structure has sprung up from seemingly nowhere—this time on a Romanian mountainside
NewsLand art
The Utah metallic monolith has now disappeared as mysteriously as it arrived
Found last week and resembling a John McCracken minimalist sculpture, the object went missing over the weekend, prompting even more conspiracy theories
NewsLand art
Alien visitors or avant-garde installation? Mysterious monolith discovered in the Utah desert
The large object spotted by biologists resembles the work of sculptor John McCracken, or a prop from Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey
NewsFrieze New York
Wanted: land-art sponsor to bury Christoph Büchel's aircraft in sand
The Swiss artist is seeking sponsors this week at Frieze New York for his new project Terminal, which involves burying a Boeing 727 jetliner in the California desert
NewsObituaries
Gianfranco Gorgoni, photographer of Land Art and the New York avant-garde, has died, aged 77
The photographer, first known for his intimate portraits of artists, was later renowned for his monumental images of art in remote places
NewsPublic art
Building on a steady foundation, New York land art site looks to the future
With a new executive director, Harvey Fite's Opus 40 near Saugerties aims to expand its programming
NewsArtists
Artist to install earthwork calling attention to immigration and human trafficking
Trail of red sand will be visible to travellers in flight and on the ground in Seattle
NewsConservation & Preservation
Nancy Holt’s desert Sun Tunnels will be cleaned and repaired—but the bullet marks are staying
The artist considered the streaks left by gunfire to be part of the Land Art work's evolution
NewsLand art
James Turrell's Roden Crater project gets $40m funding boost—with a little help from Kanye West
The artist will work with Arizona State University and a foundation toward the Land Art project's completion
NewsLand art
White House review could shrink protected land around Michael Heizer’s City
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report on national monuments recommends reductions but no details revealed
NewsLand art
Museums unite in campaign to save massive land art project
Nevada Desert site around Michael Heizer’s City is under threat
NewsLand art
Move to protect Heizer’s City from development
Nevada Senator has introduced a bill to preserve the land surrounding the mile-and-a-half-long land art project
ArchiveDigital art
Seattle to unveil Doug Aitken’s digital Land Art
The US artist Doug Aitken has created an “urban earthwork” for the façade of the Seattle Art Museum, which is due to be unveiled this month (24 March).
ArchiveExhibitions
Exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle to approach Giacometti as an early land artist
The Swiss artist’s unrealised sculptural compositions are on loan from the Guggenheim Collection
ArchiveArtist interview
Trees of knowledge: Interview with Ackroyd & Harvey
Ackroyd & Harvey have fused nature and engineering to mark London 2012’s legacy and the Olympic Park’s hidden history
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Will Double Negative be a no show?
Curators face uphill task getting OK from Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria
ArchiveConservation
Land Art: here today, gone tomorrow?
Major installations in the American West by artists such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer could soon disappear
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Dennis Oppenheim on hid latest exhibition: “I could never stay with just one thing”
The veteran artist promises “truly radical” new work in his show at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with artist Richard Long: Still walking, after all these years
Long’s latest show is a collaboration with Indian tribal artist Jivya Soma Mashe
ArchiveEco-art
Eco-warriors: in Tel Aviv a dangerous rubbish dump has inspired artists Vito Acconci, Cai Guo-Qiang, Mark Dion and others
“Hiriya in the museum” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art consists of nineteen proposals for the rehabilitation of the site