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At the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen warehouse, "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" proved that an indoor museum could smartly chronicle a form that typically operates outdoors in the actual landscape. How? Partly by revealing how closely tied to gallery spaces and mass media the genre actually was.

'Ends of the Earth'

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At the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen warehouse, "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" proved that an indoor museum could smartly chronicle a form that typically operates outdoors in the actual landscape. How? Partly by revealing how closely tied to gallery spaces and mass media the genre actually was.

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