Dia Art Foundation
535 West 22nd St
212.293.5583
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
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Monday Dec 8, 2008 (6:30pm)
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$6
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Dia's long-running lecture series (founded back in '01 with funds from the city and Art for Art's sake), Artists on Artists, returns this month with a look at earth artist Robert Smithson. Best known for his Spiral Jetty (1970), which extends into Utah's Great Salt Lake, as well as Floating Island — which made a few laps around Manhattan in 2005 — Smithson was also a prolific art critic and theorist. Pennsylvania-based artist Mark Dion illuminates Smithson's projects and works tonight. The winner of the Smithsonian Art Musuem's Lucelia Artist Award earlier this fall, Dion explores art's relationship with nature, science, and dominant ideologies through his vast multimedia installations and video works.
