The Vertical Earth Kilometer is a permanent art installation created by Walter De Maria in Friedrichsplatz Park [de] in front of the Fridericianum in Kassel...
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Maria's 1977 artwork The Vertical Earth Kilometer in Kassel, Germany, is a companion piece to The Broken Kilometer. The Broken Kilometer is composed of 500...
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155 Mercer Street (category Dance venues in the United States)
155 Mercer from Thor Equities. The proceeds from this sale allowed the Joyce to purchase their main building in Chelsea. In 2013, Thor Equities began work...
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Dia Art Foundation (category Arts foundations based in the United States)
the opening of three other works in 1977: Walter De Maria's The Vertical Earth Kilometer in Kassel Germany, and Lightning Field in New Mexico, as well...
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sponsorship of the New York Earth Room. Similarly to De Maria's Lightning Field installation, his Broken Kilometer and New York Earth Room installations...
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Valley, a desert valley in rural Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Nevada. More than a mile long, it is the largest contemporary artwork ever built. It was...
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Spiral Jetty (category Pages using infobox artwork with the material parameter)
to haul the 6,650 tons of rock and earth into the lake. It is reported that Smithson had a difficult time convincing a contractor to accept the unusual...
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from the nearest town, the work consists of 400 stainless steel poles arranged in the form of a grid. The grid measures 1 mile by 1 kilometer, and the poles...
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List of Dia Art Foundation locations and sites (category Arts foundations based in the United States)
Foundation. Retrieved May 14, 2020. Walter De Maria, The Vertical Earth Kilometer Archived 2020-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. Dia Art Foundation. Retrieved...
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7000 Oaks (section The project)
While the biggest difficulty of the project was raising the money, the project had its share of opponents. Much of it was political, from the conservative...
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Marian Zazeela. The installation features Young's continuous sine wave drones and Zazeela's lighting and design. Since its conception in the 1960s, several...
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Earth radius (denoted as R🜨 or R E {\displaystyle R_{E}} ) is the distance from the center of Earth to a point on or near its surface. Approximating the...
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Roden Crater (category Extinct volcanoes of the United States)
James Turrell to collaborate on the project with the help of a 1.8 million dollar gift. The project, referred to as the "ASU-Roden Crater Project" at ASU...
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Walter De Maria (category The Velvet Underground)
pieces, Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977), and The Broken Kilometer (1979), address the idea of unseen or abstracted distance. Vertical Earth Kilometer is a...
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The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in North America dedicated...
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Times Square, often referred to as the hum or the Times Square Hum, is a permanent sound art installation created by Max Neuhaus in Times Square in New...
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Nancy Holt (section The land art tradition)
which are "literally seeing devices, fixed points for tracking the positions of the sun, earth and stars." Today Holt is most widely known for her large-scale...
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Dia Beacon (category Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state))
is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present and is one of the 12 locations and sites they manage. The museum...
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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one...
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Beacon Point (category Commons category link is defined as the pagename)
George Trakas in Beacon, New York. Located on the Hudson River waterfront the work was inaugurated in 2007 by the Dia Art Foundation and built in collaboration...
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Menil Collection (redirect from The Menil Collection)
The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil...
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green or blue. The units completely fill the corners stretching from the ground to the top of the balcony parapet. Conceived of in 1972, the installation...
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Chinati Foundation (category Modern art museums in the United States)
The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art museum located in Marfa, Texas, and based upon the ideas of its founder, artist Donald...
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Dia Chelsea (category Contemporary art galleries in the United States)
in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and is operated by Dia Art Foundation. Opened in 1987 at 548 West 22nd Street as the Dia Center for the Arts...
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The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary...
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The vertical deflection (VD) or deflection of the vertical (DoV), also known as deflection of the plumb line and astro-geodetic deflection, is a measure...
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Earthquake (redirect from Earth tremor)
an observatory via the Earth's mantle. On average, the kilometer distance to the earthquake is the number of seconds between the P- and S-wave times...
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Hispanic Society of America (redirect from The Hispanic Society of America)
The Hispanic Society of America operates a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their former colonies...
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Geodetic datum (section Vertical datum)
location across the Earth's surface, in latitude and longitude or another coordinate system; a vertical datum is used to measure the elevation or depth...
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Dia Bridgehampton (category Contemporary art galleries in the United States)
as the Dan Flavin Art Institute, is a museum in Bridgehampton, New York run by the Dia Art Foundation. Originally built in 1909 as a firehouse, the building...
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