Subject:

Robert Smithson

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals

    In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    March 22, 2012

    LACMA Rock: Will We Ever Get Past Its Journey and Focus on the Finished Sculpture?

    In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 16, 2011

    Natural History: Anthony Lepore and Mark Hagen

    In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Andrew Rogers, Land Artist: Now Playing on a Continent Near You

    Andrew Rogers: Ancient Language, Atacama Desert 80m x 3m​ Australian artist Andrew Rogers has spent the last 13 years bouncing between 13 countries on all seven continents, working with over 6,700 people in all, creating sculptures in deserts, glaciers, gorges, city centers, national parks an ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 15, 2010

    Mark Ruwedel: "Now it is Dark" at Gallery Luisotti

    Andrew Rogers: Ancient Language, Atacama Desert 80m x 3m​ Australian artist Andrew Rogers has spent the last 13 years bouncing between 13 countries on all seven continents, working with over 6,700 people in all, creating sculptures in deserts, glaciers, gorges, city centers, national parks an ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 4, 2007

    Natural Wonder

    James Benning’s Casting a Glance

  • Art+Books

    June 21, 2007

    The Encyclopedic City

    Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

  • Art+Books

    August 17, 2006

    Terminal Papers

    The visual linguistics of Eva Hesse and Richard Pousette-Dart

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    State of the Art ’05

    A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    Connie Butler

    Going...

  • Art+Books

    May 26, 2005

    Terminal Viscosity

    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I smell poo

  • Art+Books

    November 4, 2004

    Two Bobs in Search of Landscape

    Smithson’s redemption, Flick’s contemplation

  • Art+Books

    April 15, 2004

    Next to Nothing

    Less is more, more or less

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    The Ace is Wild

    The Doug Chrismas story

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Willful Perversity

    Matthew Barney and “The Cremaster Cycle”

  • News

    October 24, 2002

    Sam & Dave

    The politics of mixology

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Warhol-by-Numbers

    The politics of mixology

  • Art+Books

    October 12, 2000

    Double Helix

    Over the river and through the woods . . .

  • Art+Books

    September 7, 2000

    Yuck!

    Tongue and blood at ACE Gallery. Plus, Adrian Piper at MOCA.

  • Art+Books

    July 13, 2000

    Crazy Summer

    The Prinzhorn Collection: The original Outsider Art. Plus, Robert Overby’s castings, James Gobel’s bears and much more

  • Art+Books

    June 18, 1998

    What is a Photograph

    Lewis Baltz ponders that and other questions of life in the Corporate State

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