Robert Smithson with a painting he identified as “Hecate Turning the Moon to Blood,” 1961. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Lorraine Harner. A good artist bio is a treasure box, and Suzaan ...

Photography remained a crucial portion of Robert Smithson’s artistic process throughout his life as a Conceptual and Earthworks artist. He used the medium to capture his large-scale projects and ...

On July 20, 1973, Smithson went out with a pilot and photographer in a two-propeller Beechcraft Baron to stake out the site of an earthwork at the edge of an artificial lake on a ranch outside of ...

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, the renowned 54-year-old Land art installation on Utah's Great Salt Lake, has officially been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Overseen by the ...

The artist and writer Robert Smithson, famous for his austere and monumental “Spiral Jetty” unfurling in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, died at 35 in a plane crash in 1973. Teresita Fernández was ...