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Now Is the Time to Get Into Land Art Pioneer Agnes Denes

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Before her long-overdue career survey opens this fall at The Shed in New York City.

In 1982, New York’s now über bourgeois Battery Park City was a landfill, described in the New Yorkby the artist and polymath Agnes Denes as a pile of “garbage, tires, and old overcoats.” So with a commission from the Public Art Fund, Denes transformed the two-acre field, carving furrows into the filth then planting and harvesting half a ton of golden wheat, all under the watchful eye of the Statue of Liberty. Denes named the project.

 

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