Robert Smithson was one of the titans of the Land Art, or Earthworks, movement, spearheaded in the 1960s by a group of artists undaunted by the mechanics of carving light-filled spaces out of an ...

The Holt/Smithson Foundation has released previously unpublished black-and-white archival images of the Spiral Jetty to commemorate 50 years since the death of Robert Smithson on July 20, 1973.

Robert Smithson’s groundbreaking land artwork Spiral Jetty (1970) has at last entered America’s National Register of Historic Places, joining the the likes of Ocmulgee Mounds National ...

Robert Smithson was his parents’ second child, and his life revolved around the older brother he never met, Harold Smithson, who died of leukemia in 1936 at age 9, before Robert was born.

Robert Smithson, “Seventh Mirror Displacement,” detail from Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1969), nine chromogenic prints from original 126 format chromogenic slides, 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x 60 ...

This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News. In 1972, just two years after it was completed, “Spiral Jetty” all but disappeared from view. Robert Smithson’s seminal earthwork was ...

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, the renowned 54-year-old Land art installation on Utah's Great Salt Lake, has officially been added to the National Register of Historic Places.