On the northeast side of the Great Salt Lake, a little over a hundred miles from Salt Lake City, lies perhaps the most notable piece of land art ever made, and due to record-low water levels caused by ...

The Holt/Smithson Foundation has released previously unpublished black-and-white archival images of the Spiral Jetty to commemorate 50 years since the death of Robert Smithson on July 20, 1973.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

According to two artists and a museum director. By Julia Halperin © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed ...

ROZEL POINT, Utah--From afar, it's hard to tell what it is. And even as you approach it, it's not clear exactly how special it is. Yet, walking through Spiral Jetty, artist Robert Smithson's ...

In 1972, just two years after it was completed, Spiral Jetty all but disappeared from view. Robert Smithson’s seminal earthwork was created at a time when the water levels of Utah’s Great Salt Lake ...

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 Historical Park ...

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A beautiful image of "Spiral Jetty," Robert Smithson's greatest earthwork by Flickr user SP Hansen (via flickr.com/55465670@N02 When we last left you in this saga ...

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Robert Smithson's “Spiral Jetty” (1977) (image via wikipedia.org) Could the Dia Foundation lose its lease to the most iconic work of land art ever? The Utah Department of Natural Resources recently ...

In 1970, New York artist Robert Smithson left the confines of a traditional art gallery and headed west to create art in the wild. He decided on the Great Salt Lake of Utah, where he created Spiral ...