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 ...

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 ...

The large earthwork—consisting of more than 6,000 tons of black basalt arranged in a coiling, 1,500ft-long and 15ft-wide form—was donated to Dia in 1999 through Smithson’s estate and his ...

Robert Smithson created Spiral Jetty on Utah's Great Salt Lake in 1970. Dia Art Foundation / Nancy Holt / Holt/Smithson Foundation Jutting from the shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is an ...

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