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Language Is Not Transparent is not the beginning but very close to the beginning of Bochner’s art work. He’d found himself inclined to Wittgenstein, the philosopher he’d studied and admired. In an interview with Border Crossings in 2019, he’d said you don’t really get ideas out of Wittgenstein, you get a manner of being.

  Recently, I visited the Spiral Jetty for the first time. I walked along the path, trudging through loose dirt. It looked as though the sand was in the process of burying the jetty. Large black rocks outlining its swirling shape were stuck in the ground without any elevation. Standing on the jetty, looking out...

The 160-acre work in the San Luis Valley features hammocks and more than 80 small, kinetic sculptures.

The restless innovation of the influential painter is on display in a retrospective in California.

Marguerite Humeau’s outdoor project in the rugged San Luis Valley seeks to heighten visitors’ awareness of the landscape

For much of our 35 years in Utah, Spiral Jetty has been underwater, visible only with lake levels below 4,195 feet (it’s presently 4,189). About 10 years ago, as the lake dropped, it appeared more often.

Five decades after the Land Artist’s death, he continues to lay the groundwork for artists eager to explore our relationship with the planet.

The Holt/Smithson Foundation have released unpublished photographs of the Spiral Jetty to mark 50 years since the death of Robert Smithson.

Embracing—and reversing—such negative mythologies of the natural world, Partially Swamped Institution sees hope and futurity in the swamp.

For many of the ambitious young people who circled Andy Warhol, the enigmatic pop artist opened otherwise inaccessible doors but also cast an inescapa