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 ...

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, ...

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Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Regarded as one of the most significant land art works in the world, the ...

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 ...

“Spiral Jetty” is the Great White Whale of American art. It is huge in scale and vast in metaphorical implications. In the art world at least, it is the stuff of legends. To see it requires a quest ...

Robert Smithson’s groundbreaking land artwork Spiral Jetty (1970) has at last entered America’s National Register of Historic Places, joining the the likes of Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park ...

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 ...

Like any work of art, the value of Spiral Jetty — easily the most recognizable artwork in Utah — depends on how you look at it. Jaimi Butler, the coordinator of Westminster College’s Great Salt Lake ...