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Garage Magazine
An Artist Dug Up the Secret Prehistory of Governors Island
Using core sampling hardware to drill beneath the manicured surfaces of New York Harbor's former military post, David Brooks conducted a deep dive into the unique site's human and non-human past.
Ian Bourland
8.21.17
last week in art
Neuroscientists Finally Cracked the Secret Behind Mona Lisa’s Smile | Last Week in Art
And a team of archeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old statue in a Cairo slum.
Nathaniel Ainley
3.13.17
Environment
The Healing Scars of Land Art
How land art learns not only to shape landscapes, but understand them.
Adam Rothstein
3.31.16

Entertainment
Land Art Animations Piece Life Itself Together
Inanimate earthly objects come to life in Paul Johnson's invigorating stop-motion short, 'Landthropologic, Earthworks In Motion.'
Nathaniel Ainley
3.1.16
Travel
Aerial Footage Makes Remote Locales Look Like Other Planets
Squint and these drone-shot vistas could easily be Mars.
Beckett Mufson
2.8.16
Travel
Komplaint Dept. - A Tour of the Monuments of Salt Lake City: Robert Smithson, the Melvins, and the Mormons
I went out to Salt Lake City to see Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty,' give a talk at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and surprise my friends the Melvins at one of their shows.
Bob Nickas
10.11.12