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WHAT ON EARTH.(Robert Smithson's works)
Robert Smithson is in fashion, in a hair-shirt kind of way. Excited reverence has marked the art-world response to a retrospective of his work that opened in Los Angeles last year and is now at the Whitney. This may seem odd, given that Smithson, the mystagogical dandy of postminimalism, who died in a plane crash in 1973, at the age of thirty-five, was a sculptor who made exactly one good sculpture: "The Spiral Jetty" (1970), a coil of rocks and dirt made with earth-moving equipment, in a remote bay of the Great Salt Lake, which few people have seen except in handsome but inevitably misleading photographs. (Underwater for many years, it reemerged in 2002.) I paid my own ...
- Robert Smithson. (International Center for Photography, New York City)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Jones. K. Marriott May 1, 1994 700+ words
...INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY For Robert Smithson, photography was fraught with ontological...functioning ruin in 1969--at which Smithson stayed with his wife Nancy Holt and dealer...anthropological commentary, in which Smithson referred to the Palenque's ongoing...
- "Robert Smithson".(art exhibition)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Panero, James September 1, 2005 700+ words
"Robert Smithson" Whitney Museum...American Art, New York. June 23...in Dallas and New York, only the second...mounted since Smithson's untimely...interested, Smithson owned a copy...Olmsted's New York, twenty-six...
- A heap of Smithson: a traveling retrospective and a number of recent scholarly...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Ratcliff, Carter October 1, 2005 700+ words
...a year after Robert Smithson's death in the crash of a small plane, the New York Cultural Center presented...artist's drawings. Smithson had been flying over...Museum of American Art in New York. Two years later...Venice Biennale honored Smithson with "A Retrospective...
- Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Ratcliff, Carter October 1, 2003 700+ words
...Reynolds says, "It is as if Smithson has created a fold, crease...world purity and flatness that Smithson went to the Yucatan. In New York, his head echoed with the...eradicates the false reality." Smithson's account appeared in Artforum...
- Inventive Smithson pushed boundaries.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Sherman, Mary November 29, 1998 700+ words
"Robert Smithson: Slideworks" at the Rose Art Museum...s eyes had shifted from Europe to New York. Jackson Pollock, with his drip...wake-up call, and in stepped Robert Smithson. Smithson questioned the very nature of art...
- SMITHSON GIVES SOX A BOOST
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ron Borges, Globe Staff June 2, 1988 700+ words
...occurred Tuesday night when Mike Smithson, a week removed from wearing...did manage to keep a grip on Smithson's 4-3 victory. That closed...games of the first-place New York Yankees entering two weeks...Fenway Park against Toronto. Smithson's performance helped his...
- Non-site unseen: how I spent my summer vacation.(Nico Israel travel narrative...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Israel, Nico September 1, 2002 700+ words
...and I drove from New York to Promontory Summit...search of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty...immensity'" (Smithson again, this time...absolute antidote to New York, which is, as...often enough in New York that Spiral Jetty...that the point of Smithson's project ...
- Smithson's no-hit bid falls short
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times August 3, 1986 700+ words
...out in the seventh inning. Smithson (9-9) also gave up a single to Donnie Hill in the eighth. Smithson pitched his seventh complete...first victory since July 7. Smithson had plenty of support as the...as Cleveland handed visiting New York its fifth loss in six games...
