Richard Serra argued that removing Tilted Arc from Federal Plaza would destroy it rather than relocate it. What idea about the sculpture does that claim emphasize?

Running Fence crossed 59 private properties in Sonoma and Marin Counties before reaching the Pacific. Why were landowners' permissions artistically consequential?

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field is a grid of 400 steel poles in remote western New Mexico, with overnight visits encouraged. What does this setting ask viewers to do?

Smithson chose Rozel Point for Spiral Jetty partly because of its red water, salt deposits, basalt, and fluctuating lake level. What does this choice show?

Dia has kept The New York Earth Room on view since 1980, with a caretaker who waters and rakes the soil. What does this care show about the work?

Double Negative consists of two enormous cuts facing one another across a Nevada mesa after earth was displaced. Where is the sculpture's primary form?

Smithson's Non-sites placed rocks gathered at a distant location in gallery bins beside maps of that place. How does a Non-site relate to its site?

The Lightning Field's 400 polished stainless-steel poles form a one-mile-by-one-kilometer grid. Which artistic concern is most visible in this construction?

The New York Earth Room contains 250 cubic yards of earth, peat, and bark spread 22 inches deep. Why is it still an earthwork despite being indoors?

Spiral Jetty was submerged after 1972 and reemerged decades later with salt crusting its surface. How should this change be understood within Smithson's project?

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates transformed Central Park with saffron fabric panels for only sixteen days in 2005. What was central to that limited duration?

Mendieta's Silueta works used soil, fire, flowers, and body-shaped marks that could disappear outdoors. What role does erosion play in such work?

The Lightning Field's 400 steel poles stand on uneven desert ground, yet their pointed tips form one level plane. How was this achieved?

A museum displays photographs and video of a Mendieta Silueta that no longer survives outdoors. What do these records preserve?

Dia treats Spiral Jetty's earthwork, film, and essay as related components. Why is the film especially useful to later study of the work?

In How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965), Joseph Beuys moved through a closed gallery, his head covered in honey and gold leaf, talking to a dead hare. How did the public first see it?

In Cut Piece, Yoko Ono sat silently while audience members cut away parts of her clothing. What makes the audience essential to the work?

For Rhythm 0, Marina Abramović stood still for six hours beside 72 objects that viewers could use on her. What was the central medium of the work?

In Seedbed, Vito Acconci lay hidden beneath a ramp while loudspeakers carried his spoken fantasies about visitors above. How did the gallery audience enter the performance?

A happening dissolves the usual boundary between spectator and artwork by drawing visitors into an environment. What role does the visitor take?

Yoko Ono's Painting to Be Stepped On placed canvas on the floor and invited viewers to tread on it. What convention does this action challenge?

Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party arranges 39 place settings around a triangular table. Why must a viewer move around the installation to read it?

The Dinner Party includes 999 additional names inscribed on the Heritage Floor beneath its table. What does that floor add to the installation's meaning?

The New York Earth Room covers 3,600 square feet of floor with earth behind a barrier. What distinguishes this installation from a portable sculpture on a pedestal?

A museum labels an object as a performance relic rather than the performance itself. Which statement best explains this distinction?