The Dia Art Foundation is in danger of losing control of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” in Utah, a giant rock sculpture built on the bed of the Great Salt Lake in 1970.
The foundation acquired the work, which at times has been completely submerged by the lake, through the artist’s estate in 1999 and since Read More
Years have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the nation. Oil prices skyrocketed. Stagflation made a stumblebum of the economy. Read More
Years have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the nation. Oil prices skyrocketed. Stagflation made a stumblebum of the Read More
Given the mini-scandal that erupted last month over Michael Kimmelman’s absurd pronouncement in The New York Times Magazine that the Minimalists, Conceptualists and Earth Artists who made their debut in the 1960′s can now be said to constitute the “Greatest Generation” in the history of American art, it’s surprising that so little critical attention has Read More
