The artist, Dan Graham, has died over the weekend in New York. Graham’s influence over the past half-century as a writer, photographer, architect, sculptor, filmmaker and performance artist is a great loss to the contemporary art world. Since the 1960s his groundbreaking endeavours in video, installation and audience participation – including such legendary and confrontational […]
14 January 2021
Robert Smithson explores interests in cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy and religion.
1 June 2020
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
The Great Salt Lake in Utah, home to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, is facing the most severe drought in history which may effect the artist’s work. Water levels are “inches” from the historic low set in 1963, says Bonnie Baxter, the director of the Great Salt Lake Institute. According to a story by the Salt […]
After the recent arrest of Marco Evaristti in Iceland, when local landowners accused him of vandalism after the Danish-Chilean artist dyed the Strokkur geyser pink, Artlyst questions the morality of the artist appropriating nature as a canvas. Was this act a harmless intervention? or is it a signifier of our ever-growing dislocation from the natural […]
The American Environmental Artist Nancy Holt best-known for her installations including Sun Tunnels,” has died age 75.