Robert Smithson’s groundbreaking land artwork ... It is already Utah’s official state work of Land Art. Smithson died in 1973 while doing an aerial survey of the site of Amarillo Ramp in ...

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’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Regarded as one of the most significant land art works in the world ...

“As I looked at the site, it reverberated out to the horizons only to suggest an immobile cyclone while flickering light made the entire landscape appear to quake,” Smithson wrote at the ...

Late American sculptor Robert ... Art work embodies the continuous changes of its surrounding environment, probing notions of permanence and ephemerality. Entropy was the driving force for ...

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. Overseen by the ...

One of Utah’s largest and best-known works of art has received a new national recognition — thanks to a Utah State University graduate student’s thesis project. Robert Smithson’s Spiral ...