New York Earth Room

Installation by Walter De Maria
40°43′34″N 73°59′59″W / 40.7260°N 73.9998°W / 40.7260; -73.9998OwnerDia Art FoundationAccession1980.135Websitewww.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/walter-de-maria-the-new-york-earth-room-new-york-united-states/main/earthroom
An oblique view of an 8 story white stone building.
The building housing the New York Earth Room.
An close up view of a building buzzer system showing a button for "2A Dia Apartment" and "2B New York Earth Room".
The buzzer that must be pressed to gain entry to the New York Earth Room.

The New York Earth Room is an interior sculpture by the artist Walter De Maria that has been installed in a loft at 141 Wooster Street in New York City since 1977.[1] The sculpture is a permanent installation of 250 cubic yards (197 cubic meters) of earth in 3,600 (335 square meters) square feet of floor space, and 22 inch depth of material (56 centimeters).[2] The installation has had the same caretaker, Bill Dilworth,[3] since 1989, and is maintained by the Dia Art Foundation who consider it one of their 12 locations and sites they manage.

History

The first 'Earth Room' was the Munich Earth Room, installed in 1968 by Heiner Friedrich at Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich. The work was first installed in New York in 1977 as a 3-month exhibition, at what was then the Heiner Friedrich Gallery. It remained on display long afterward, and when Friedrich helped to establish the Dia Art Foundation in 1980, he supported its permanent sponsorship of the New York Earth Room.[4]

Similarly to De Maria's Lightning Field installation, his Broken Kilometer and New York Earth Room installations in New York remain on continuous view.[5]

Dia maintains an apartment on the same floor as The New York Earth Room.[6]

See also

  • Land art

Further reading

  • De Maria, Walter. 1992. New York Earth Room. Art in America.
  • Kastner, Jeffrey. 2000. "Alone in a Crowd: The Solitude of Walter De Maria's New York Earth Room and Broken Kilometer". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context, and Enquiry. (2): 69-73.
  • Lailach, Michael, and Uta Grosenick. 2007. Land Art. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-5613-0. ISBN 3-8228-5613-4
  • Cascone, Sarah. "Walter De Maria, 1935-2013." Art in America.

References

  1. ^ Powers, William (May 20, 2009). "Escapes: 'The Earth Room' and Other Art by Walter De Maria in New York". The Washington Post.
  2. ^ Raver, Anne (November 11, 1993). "GARDEN NOTEBOOK; A Big Room in SoHo, Full of Earth". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Churchill, Abbye (June 4, 2012). "As the Earth Turns: 'The New York Earth Room'". Opening Ceremony.
  4. ^ "Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room". Dia Art Foundation.
  5. ^ "Dia Art Foundation - Walter De Maria: The Broken Kilometer". Diacenter.org. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  6. ^ "SoHo open house". Dia Art Foundation. 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2024-04-17.

External links

  • Media related to The New York Earth Room at Wikimedia Commons
  • Interview with Bill Dilworth
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