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 ...

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, “Spiral Jetty” (1970) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Indeed, the artwork is situated in a part of the lake where the water, or at least what remains of it, is reddish — ...

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 ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's governor has signed a bill that designates the iconic "Spiral Jetty" sculpture on the shore of the Great Salt Lake an official state work of art. On Saturday, Republican ...

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A beautiful image of "Spiral Jetty," Robert Smithson's greatest earthwork by Flickr user SP Hansen (via flickr.com/55465670@N02 When we last left you in this saga ...

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