Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is believed to be the first piece of Land Art to join the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, which includes nearly 100,000 sites across the country that ...

Spiral Jetty is one of the world’s most famous works of land art: art that’s created directly in and from a landscape, either by sculpting earth or building with natural materials. The medium ...

Spiral Jetty, constructed by artist Robert Smithson in 1970. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Land Art Museum brings this tradition closer to the public, offering the opportunity to ...

Late American sculptor Robert Smithson’s best known creation, “Spiral Jetty” (1970), has ... the enormous Land Art work embodies the continuous changes of its surrounding environment ...