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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term Land Art brings to mind epic interventions in the land such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, 6,500 tons of basalt, earth and salt projecting into Utah’s Great Salt Lake, or Roden Crater, an ...

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 ...

Shrouded in mystery since its inception in the 1970s, artist Michael Heizer’s expansive land art project City finally opens to visitors today. Located in the Great Basin desert of eastern Nevada, the ...

Lita Albuquerque created her "Spine of the Earth" sundial in 1980 in California's Mojave Desert. Albuquerque is among the featured artists in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s "Groundswell: Women of Land ...