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The museum has also announced the forthcoming programming for its triennial Art and Environment Conference

Support Provided By On the shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake, a strange, almost-supernatural coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide can be seen. Its form seems cosmic, but its origins are entirely human. It is probably one of the most well-known land artworks to date: Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty." Consisting primarily of black basalt rocks and salt crystals (as the lake is aptly named), this work changes with the water levels and will be experienced differently depending on the time of day. You can even view this work from the airplane if you are flying into Salt Lake airport. "Spiral Jetty"...

Nancy Holt, Electrical System II: Bellman Circuit (1982) David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, Canada - 3/4 in. steel conduit, lighting and electrical fixtures, light bulbs, electrical wire - Length: 55 ft. (16.7 m); Width: 24 ft. (7.3 m); Height: 9 1⁄2 ft.(2.9 m) © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS. Today, UMass Dartmouth and the College of Visual and Performing Arts announced a $45,000 award from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Program for the exhibition Nancy Holt: Massachusetts. The exhibition celebrating the Massachusetts-born artist Nancy Holt will feature schola...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Once upon a time, you could stand on the roof of 548 West 22nd Street, up among the water towers of Manhattan, with views out over the Hudson to New Jersey, and watch the city shimmer and reflect on the surfaces of one of Dan Graham’s glass pavilions. It was a New York moment. You could go downstairs, following the blue and green glow of a Dan Flavin light sculpture lining the stairwell, and see shows by leaders in contemporary European and American art reaching back to the 1960s. The galleries here, at Dia Center for the Arts, were some of the first to ...

Re-emerging as a force in Chelsea after a two-year, $20m renovation, the Dia Art Foundation’s space there will reopen on Friday (16 April) with a renewed purpose: to champion under-recognised artists and to serve as an information hub for all 11 of Dia’s long-term art sites. The foundation’s Chelsea renovation unites its three contiguous buildings on West 22nd Street and underlines its gritty history of inventively revitalising existing structures. The 32,500 sq. ft project, which includes 20,000 sq. ft for exhibitions and other programming, embraces the neighbourhood’s tradit...