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Walking piece 1968

Stephen Long

Stephen Long’s 1,600-foot sculpture blends with the landscape, its red, yellow, and blue stripes shifting with natural light. Optical mixing and changing hues make movement and aerial perspectives essential to experiencing the work fully.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2015

Mirror Labyrinth – NYC

Mirror Labyrinth – NYC is a freestanding mirrored installation with varying-height lamellae forming interconnected curves. Reflecting viewers, surroundings, and Manhattan’s skyline, it creates a disorienting, labyrinth-like experience linking Brooklyn Bridge Park to the cityscape.

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WALK!

SCHIRN
18 Feb - 22 May, 2022
Römerberg, Frankfurt, Germany

The group exhibition WALK! at the SCHIRN provides an overview of walking as a practice in contemporary art production—a facet that has so far been rarely considered.

Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice

Francesco Careri
post Curated news 22 Jan, 2026

Talking with Tony Smith

The sculptor-painter-architect, Tony Smith, born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1912, is one of the best-known unknowns in American art. Most people involved in the art world around New… Source: Talking with Tony Smith

Walking piece
Walking piece 1979

Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30)

Robert Morris’s Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30) (1979) reshaped an abandoned gravel pit into a terraced amphitheater, reclaiming the land as public art. Today, the site also serves as a space for walking practice and outdoor movement activities.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1969

Las Vegas Piece

Walter De Maria’s 1969 Las Vegas Piece – mile-long bulldozer lines forming a square in the desert – was hard to find even then and is now barely visible. The work’s elusiveness was central to the experience, emphasizing remoteness and chance.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1968

Mile Long Drawing

For Mile Long Drawing, De Maria drew two parallel chalk lines a mile long in the Mojave Desert, bringing Minimalism outdoors.

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RadicalitÉcoutante

Ramener l’écoute à fleur d’oreille A fleur de peau vibratile A fleur de peau tympanesque Juste à portée d’oreilles Et … Plus

Gilles Malatray
Walking as Artist... 40

Bani Abidi, Security Barriers A-Z (2009-19)

Bani Abidi, (1971-) in Karachi (PK), lives and works in Karachi and Delhi (IN) “26 Inkjet Prints, 29.7 x 42.0cm A design typology of security barriers found on the streets of Karachi (2009 – 2019). These barriers, which started making an entry into Karachi’s streets soon after the attack on the Twin Towers in NY […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artist... 75

Judy Marsh, Left Leaning (2017)

“Judy Marsh’s paintings use the visual language of the structures that shape our movement in the urban environment, particularly of hazard signs and barriers. In these sculptural paintings strips of black and white diagonal stripes protrude forwards with an arresting vibrancy. Left open at the side, the works invite the viewer to peer between the […]

Ellen Mueller
Walkspace 90

Exploring Micro Sovereignties

I often think about the group slow walk Hamish Futon ran in Birmingham in 2012 for the Ikon and Fierce Festival where he got people to walk lines marked behind Curzon Street Station, some very short, some the length of the site, as slowly as necessary to complete the walk in the time allowed. Here's […]

Pete Ashton

V.O.N.A.R.

Vocal Orientation And Navigation Through development and practice of Driftsinging.

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