In the high desert of Northwestern New Mexico, 400 stainless steel poles jut out of the desolate landscape. The poles, each measuring two inches in diameter, are spaced evenly, at intervals of 220 ...

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Next to San Ysidro Creek, which blasted over its banks during the tragic debris flows in Montecito on January 9, 2018, nine of Casa de Maria’s buildings vanished along with the trees, and 14 acres ...

Walter De Maria, born in Albany, California in 1935, was a pioneering American artist known for his contributions to minimalism and land art. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley and ...

Installation View of Walter De Maria’s ‘Truck Trilogy’ at Dia:Beacon (image courtesy Dia Art Foundation) When artist, sculptor, and musician Walter De Maria died in 2013, he left one of his works ...

The Lightning Field, The New York Earth Room, The Broken Kilometer, The Vertical Earth Kilometer—pretty much enough to justify declaring Walter De Maria, ‘The Vertical Earth Kilometer,’ 1977, in ...

If it’s possible to identify exactly where it begins and ends, one might say the artwork started in a simple white-stucco storefront in Quemado, New Mexico. Inside a low-ceilinged room, a stack of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. One sunny day in 1968, Walter De Maria went for a walk in the ...

Walter De Maria, the artist whose monumental sculptures and installations combined the simplicity of minimalism with a love of scale, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 77. The cause of death was a ...