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Remote Futures, Remote Pasts2 comments

Deborah Barlow wrote 2 days ago: Salt crystals on the Spiral Jetty, Utah When a place is lifeless or unreal, there is almost always a … more →

Tags: Architecture, Art, ART-making, Christopher Alexander, edward hollis, Robert Smithson, The Secret Life of Buildings

Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

artsetoile wrote 2 weeks ago: Giacometti's "L'Homme qui chavire” sold for $19.3 million at Sotheby's early this m … more →

Tags: Auctions, collecting, Contemporary Art, Galleries, Los Angeles, Museums, Paris, Party Pics, Photography

Barbican Art Gallery - Radical Nature (2009)

writtenreview wrote 1 month ago: Radical Nature looks at Environmental art and architecture to explore how both past work and that of … more →

Tags: Art, Photography, Review, environmental art, Green, Environment, Environmental, climate change, photograph

spiral jetty

electricmud wrote 4 months ago: Examining the latest threat to Spiral Jetty – Modern Art Notes . … more →

Tags: Art, Robert Smithson

Helen Frankenthaler's 'Untitled 1995'

logandonaldson wrote 4 months ago: Untitled 1995 Helen Frankenthaler Oil on Canvas “A really good picture looks as if it’s … more →

Tags: Arts, Helen Frankenthaler, phenomenology of art, untitled 1995, Synesthesia, Simon Schama, rothko, pretension

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.1 comment

karynmannix wrote 5 months ago: Robert Smithson   Spiral  Jetty 1970 Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting a … more →

Tags: Artist Quote, Quote Of The Day, Robert Smithson, Land Art

Site-specific contextual

gordondouglas wrote 6 months ago: Okay, so I haven’t been delegating a lot of time to site-specific as i’m getting really … more →

Tags: Les notes sur la belle artistes, Conceptual Art, Art, richard long, walk, Andy Goldsworthy, Environment, site specific, license plates

Monday Convergence: Robert Smithson, Peter Sandbichler

petebrook wrote 6 months ago: Floating Maze, Festival der Regionen. 2007, by Peter Sandbichler. This weeks convergence pairs Peter … more →

Tags: convergence, Floating Maze, Peter Sandbichler, Robert Smithson, Visual

Spiral Jetty (and the Bird Refuge)2 comments

Battle Bunny wrote 7 months ago: First I just want to say that Utah is awesome. By the time I reached college and decided that the pr … more →

Tags: Travel, Hobbies, Events, Bear River Migrat, Great Salt Lake, Robert Smithson, Utah

Robert Smithson

Helen wrote 1 year ago: On Saturday I attend the quarterly docent event at the UMFA.  Jill Dawson, Curator of Modern and Con … more →

Tags: Gallery Stroll, UMFA, Robert Smithson, Jill Dawson, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Great Salt Lake, earthworks

Jurying in Utah

Curator John wrote 1 year ago: Spiral Jetty, 2008 I have just returned from Salt Lake City where I was invited by the Utah Arts Cou … more →

Tags: People at ASU Art Museum, Arts, Council, rio gallery, Robert, Salt Lake City, Smithson, spiak, Utah

Tourist Pictures

photojosh wrote 1 year ago: Here are some pictures that I’ve taken more or less as a tourist.  They are from Utah, Califor … more →

Tags: Photo, Art

Smithson's Antediluvian Spiral Jetty

Liz Hager wrote 1 year ago: Robert Smithson, “Sprial Jetty,” Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970. (photo: George Steinmetz 2 … more →

Tags: Artists Speak, Fine & Decorative Arts, Liz Hager, Site work, Robert Smithson

Hello, Autumn (September 22, 2008)

laurameyerlaurameyer wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I made some seitan in beet broth – my first autumnal meal – and it looked a lo … more →

Tags: Music, cooking, Pictures], New York City, New York, Village Voice, Van Gogh, Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica

Jars in Tennessee, Jetties in Utah1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: I continue to be caught up and compelled by the ongoing saga of the Spiral Jetty. It is a touchstone … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Land/Earth, Sacred, art pilgrimage, Great Salt Lake, KSL, Land Art, Utah

Erin Hogan: Melding Gravitas with Whimsy

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: Erin Hogan A few weeks ago I posted a review of a new book on Slow Painting, Spiral Jetta by Erin Ho … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Land/Earth, Erin Hogan, Lawrence Weschler, Robert Smithson, Sprial Jetta

Spiral Jetta: Witnessing Earthworks1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: Spiral Jetty In 1970, two discrete events helped define what would become known as “land art.” Micha … more →

Tags: ART-making, Art History, Books, Art, earthworks, Erin Hogan, Spiral Jetta, Suzaan Boettger, Tom Vanderbilt

Iconic Spiral Jetty

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: Robert Smithson Today, as oil costs rise, even difficult extraction missions become potentially lucr … more →

Tags: ART-making, The Art World, ArtLife, Robert Smithson

Did Robert Smithson's vision include an oil rig?1 comment

cuvintu wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times reported today that the very same lake that contains Robert Smithson’s 1970 … more →

Tags: Politics, Art, Robert Smithson, Utah, Great Salt Lake, oil drilling, Environmentalism, Economics, ANWR


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