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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve never heard of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty by the end of this blog you’ll know all you’ll need to — and probably send a letter of protest to save its existence. Created in 1970 in Utah, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 Jetty, the ...