The Holt/Smithson Foundation has released previously unpublished black-and-white archival images of the Spiral Jetty to commemorate 50 years since the death of Robert Smithson on July 20, 1973.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

SANTA FE — Accompanied by a slideshow of travel photographs, the voice of Robert Smithson looks back on a 1969 trip to Mexico. “There is something about Mexico,” he exclaims, shortly after explaining ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of sculptor, painter, and author Robert Smithson and sculptor, filmmaker, and earthworks artist Nancy Holt measure 18.9 linear feet and ...

Perhaps the world’s most widely known earthwork, it cost the artist less than $10,000 and took only six weeks to construct, thanks to rented heavy equipment and a hired crew.

Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was built by pushing 6,650 tons of earth and basalt into the Great Salt Lake, forming a spiral 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. As massive as the earthwork is, however, ...

For most of her life, Teresita Fernández had encountered in person as many artworks by Land Art trailblazer Robert Smithson as most people had—which is to say, zero. “For most of us, the little we ...

A history of land art in eight works. By Julia Halperin A retrospective pairing Teresita Fernández and Robert Smithson shows they share sympathetic, deep engagement with geology and civilization. By ...

Robert Smithson, "Spiral Jetty" (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah (all images © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation; licensed by Artists Rights Society ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of Robert Smithson conducted 1972 July 14-19, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art at 799 Greenwich Street in New York ...

Photography remained a crucial portion of Robert Smithson’s artistic process throughout his life as a Conceptual and Earthworks artist. He used the medium to capture his large-scale projects and ...