Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty ... At the time, he was using the concept of entropy as the basis for his works-looking at the ways natural elements and manufactured spaces interact and then ...

Curatorial, Ann Temkin: Robert Smithson is best known for his mammoth earthwork Spiral Jetty in Utah; he also uses natural materials like rocks, dirt and in this case coral, in smaller works of art.

Tezcatlipoca is sometimes represented as a jaguar, which was also a symbol of ancient Mexican rules. Jaguar pelts were reserved solely for their use. In 1969, American artist Robert Smithson retraced ...

Robert Andrew Smithson passed away peacefully on Tuesday ... in 1962 where he went to work for Carson Pirie Scott department stores in Chicago during the Christmas Holidays.

Robert and collaborator/wife Nancy Holt were pioneers in the Land Art Movement of the 1960s and 70s. Smithson liked to see in his works something of a dialectic between man and nature. For this he ...