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

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 ...

Long before Instagram’s developers were even born, Gianfranco Gorgoni made the abstract concept of land art accessible to audiences around the world. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Land art is not by any means a purely Western phenomenon. Big, monumental sculptures, along with smaller, more ephemeral works, can be found throughout the world. But the big land art movement really ...

Starting in the mid-20th century, humans began to move around more soil than the natural forces of erosion and volcanic activity taken together — we became geological agents, as environmental ...

You can see a lot of weird stuff on Google Maps. If you’re taking a digital stroll around the world with the software’s Street View function, it’s not uncommon to see people intentionally trolling the ...

When Mark Twain famously wrote of "a good walk spoiled", he was referring to golf. But what about art in the landscape? Our roadside attractions are, for the most part, disappointing. Those motorway ...