The New York Earth Room

On the second floor of 141 Wooster Street in New York's SoHo district there is a 3,600 square foot room filled with earth - 280,000 pounds of it, first installed in 1977 and maintained there ever since. This is the New York Earth Room, a piece of installation art by Walter De Maria, originally planned as a three month exhibition which has now stretched into its sixth decade. This is actually the…