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Robert Smithson, Grave Mounds with Object, ca. 1966 © HOLT/SMITHSON FOUNDATION / VAGA AT ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY Curated by Highsnobiety and presented during the time period formerly known as Paris Men’s Fashion Week, “Not In Paris 2” is our second in a series of bi-annual digital exhibitions celebrating creativity in the age of remote interactions. Head here for the full series and cop our new merch via our online store. Throughout his career, the late artist Robert Smithson drew abstract floating objects and varied formless masses. Thought of as studies for his famous “ear...

/ Where does one begin when exploring the oeuvre of Robert Smithson? As an autodidact, his interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, religion, science fiction, popular culture and language spiral through his work while, in his practice, he produced paintings, drawings, sculptures, architectural schemes, films, photographs, writings, earthworks and all the stops between. As a result, there are many potential entry points. I guess I was always interested in origins and primordial beginnings – Robert Smithson The usual answer, based on an intervie...

Photo by Andy Romer Photography, courtesy of Madison Square Park. Abigail DeVille will chat on Zoom with Edward Berenson, a Statue of Liberty expert, about her new exhibition “Light of Freedom,” on view through January 31, 2021. It’s inspired by Lady Liberty’s arm and torch, which were displayed in Madison Square Park from 1876 to 1882, as part of the effort to fundraise for the massive sculpture’s completion. DeVille invites audiences to reconsider this symbol of American freedom through the lens of African American history, from the first slaves brought to New Amsterdam in 1626 ...