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Land art, via Google Earth
Utah's Great Salt Lake covers some 1,700 square miles, making it one of the largest such bodies of salt water around. Have you ever wondered exactly where, relative to other parts of that vast and peculiar lake, artist Robert Smithson built his landmark...
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Monster Mash: Union threatens protest at Tony Awards; confusion over Spiral Jetty control
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The Reading Life: Gordon Matta-Clark's 'Conical Intersect'
Jacket CopyWhat was he up to? That's the question at the center of any consideration of Gordon Matta-Clark, an architecture student-turned-installation artist who died of cancer in 1978, when he was just 35. Matta-Clark doesn't have the name recognition of... -
Art review: Emmet Gowin at Marc Selwyn
Culture MonsterMarc Selwyn’s presentation of photographs by Emmet Gowin is the kind of show that might easily escape the attention of spectacle-seeking gallery-goers fixated on the now and the next. The pictures are not new (they date from between 1988-96); they’re.... -
Overlooked attractions in the West
Special to The Los Angeles TimesWhen pondering the West -- that unwieldy stretch of U.S. soil from Texas to the Pacific Northwest -- travelers tend to flash on archetypes -- the Golden Gate Bridge, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Hollywood, Monument Valley, Vegas, the Alamo,...Tags: Education, Personal Service, Science and Technology, Tourism and Leisure, Black Hills Corporation
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Inside Rachel Whiteread's drawing room
Rachel Whiteread is an artist of big works and big accomplishments.
So what's going on in "Rachel Whiteread Drawings," the latest exhibition at the Hammer Museum? The show of 155 drawings, accompanied by eight sculptures and a vitrine of small objects...Tags: Education, United Kingdom, Science and Technology, Building Material, Sculpture
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Monster Mash: Kander-Ebb musical to debut off-Broadway; Andrew Lloyd Webber in hospital; UC Berkeley scraps museum plan
Culture Monster-- Eagerly awaited: "The Scottsboro Boys," a new musical from John Kander and Fred Ebb, will begin performances February at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theater. (Variety) -- Scrapped: UC Berkeley has abandoned its plan to construct a new Berkeley Art Museum... -
Getting back to the land
In 1959, Walter de Maria envisioned tuxedoed men and bejeweled women watching "inexperienced people" dig a hole with a steam shovel on a vacant acre of land near an art-loving city while music played and parents screamed, "Get that bulldozer away from...Tags: Hudson River, Albuquerque, Death, Science and Technology, Photography
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Quick Takes
Winfrey has a thing for 'Earth' books Oprah Winfrey has chosen Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth," a self-help guide by the author of the million-selling "The Power of Now," as her latest book club selection. Winfrey made the announcement Wednesday on her...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Celine Dion, Oprah Winfrey, Lifestyle and Leisure, Barbra Streisand
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Westminster College, New York foundation team up to preserve Spiral Jetty
Fox 13Two groups are collaborating to preserve an iconic piece of art that sits along the Great Salt Lake. The Spiral Jetty, constructed in 1970 by American sculptor Robert Smithson, is a 1,500-foot-long counterclockwise spiral built of mud, salt crystals...Tags: Education, Salt, Arts, Arts and Culture, Sculpture
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An Aldrich Exhibit Covers All the Holiday Bases
All the Holidays All at Once is an installation by Brooklyn-based artist team MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc.), Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden, who have worked together since 1996 on projects that challenge assumptions concerning the process and...Tags: Bunny (music group), Holidays, Easter, Craigslist, Inc., Arts and Culture
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