The New York Earth Room: One artist's dirty deed

By Barry Divola
October 1 2016 - 12:15am
Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. Long-term installation at 141 Wooster Street, New York City.
Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. Long-term installation at 141 Wooster Street, New York City.

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. And that someone's name is Bill Dilworth, caretaker of The New York Earth Room, a loft in SoHo that's filled with 335 square metres of levelled dirt weighing 127,300 kilograms. It's been there since 1977.

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