Last week, both the Utah House and Utah Senate voted to approve Robert Smithson’s seminal land artwork Spiral Jetty (1970) as the state work of land art. Utah lawmakers also recognized various ancient ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Robert Smithson‘s iconic Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot-long landscape intervention made of 6,000 tons of basalt rocks arranged in a giant coil in the Great Salt Lake, may soon be named Utah’s official ...

Robert Smithson may have had the vision to create it, but Robert Phillips had the know-how to actually build it. Robert “Bob” Phillips, the man who helped make artist Robert Smithson’s famous Spiral ...

A Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 photo shows The Spiral Jetty earth works on the north edge of the Great Salt Lake created by artist Robert Smithson in 1970. On March 25, 2017, Republican Gov. Gary Herbert ...

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 ...

New York artist Carmen Einfinger places her colored canvas strips as part of her color homage to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty Feb. 2. New York artist Carmen Einfinger, left, places her colored ...

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

One day in April, Rachael DeLue, an associate professor of art and archaeology at Princeton, held class outdoors — on the north shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. She and the 15 graduate and two ...