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 ...
Robert Smithson, "Spiral Jetty" (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah (all images © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation; licensed by Artists Rights Society ...
Whenever life becomes too turbulent, I like to visit Robert Smithson’s most famous work of art — Spiral Jetty. He completed it in Utah in 1970, yet three years later both he and the jetty were gone.