Katie White profiles Lita Albuquerque in Artnet, Land Art’s Grande Dame Lita Albuquerque Is Still ‘Queen of the Now’.
In 1975, Lita Albuquerque was walking through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when she heard someone call out “Pay attention to the feet!” She scribbled the line into her notebook, not knowing what it meant exactly. Sometime later she looked at the notebook and was struck by the words: look at the earth, look at where we’re standing on the Earth, she thought.
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