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Robert Smithson

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Some Important Questions About Artist Legacies

Avatar photo by Erin Joyce February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

How is legacy defined, who defines it, whom does it serve?

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A Transportive Film Series Spotlights Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell May 6, 2020May 4, 2020

The films created by the legendary artists move beyond pure documentation, adding layers of context and revealing insights into their respective practices.

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Robert Smithson’s Experiments in Entropy

Avatar photo by Amie Tullius April 21, 2020April 20, 2020

Revisiting Smithson’s earthworks “Spiral Jetty” and “Partially Buried Woodshed,” which have dramatically changed 50 years later.

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A Rediscovered Nancy Holt Documentary From 1970

Avatar photo by Hikmet Sidney Loe March 5, 2020March 5, 2020

The short documentary Utah Sequences, previously thought to be lost, purely displays Nancy Holt’s vision of time and place.

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Nancy Holt Brilliantly Emerges from the Shadows

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 19, 2018November 20, 2018

In 2018, she became the first female Land artist in the Dia Art Foundation’s collection, but it has taken decades for Holt to gain recognition. A new exhibition argues she was truly an artistic innovator.

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A Pastel Portrait of Spiral Jetty and Its Environs

by Claire Voon November 23, 2017November 23, 2017

Spencer Finch, “Great Salt Lake and Vicinity” (2017), commissioned by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (all photos courtesy UMFA) In describing the surrounding landscape of Spiral Jetty in a 1972 essay, Robert Smithson gives us ample descriptions of color, from the “deposits of black basalt” to “shallow pinkish water” to his sublime view of “a […]

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When Art Refuses to Let Go

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli September 23, 2017September 23, 2017

Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.

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How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?

by Ben Valentine August 28, 2017July 25, 2022

If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself.

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As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, “Spiral Jetty” May Be Marooned

by Angela Wang February 7, 2017February 7, 2017

The lake that hosts Robert Smithson’s landmark earthwork is desiccating at an alarming rate.

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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino March 15, 2016March 15, 2016

At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.

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Robert Smithson’s Sacred and Profane Pop

by Quinn Moreland January 6, 2016January 13, 2016

Pop, an exhibition currently on view at James Cohan’s new Grand Street location, explores a more obscure phase of Robert Smithson’s tragically brief career: his figurative engagement with popular culture.

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A Documentary Mines the Stories of Three Pioneers of Land Art

by Kemy Lin September 28, 2015September 30, 2015

In his new documentary, Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art, filmmaker and art historian James Crump digs beneath the surface to explore the personal lives, artworks, and historical treatment of three land artists: Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, and Robert Smithson.

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