In 1969, a young artist named Michael Heizer headed into the Nevada desert 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas and cut a pair of trenches into a mesa, running 50 feet deep, 30 feet wide and a combined ...

Earthworks go back to prehistoric times. But our turbulent era is inspiring a new generation of artists. Here are six ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Beverly Buchanan set out to create a monumental work of ...

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 ...

Sometimes art makes you go, "Hmm, that's nice." And sometimes it makes you go, "Hmm … what?" Landscapes have inspired artists for a long time, and that is certainly the case with these iconic pieces ...