Earthworks were a radical departure from making artwork in the formal setting of a gallery. Influenced by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet and Robert Rauschenberg, ...

Robert Smithson was one of the titans of the Land Art, or Earthworks, movement, spearheaded in the 1960s by a group of artists undaunted by the mechanics of carving light-filled spaces out of an ...

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In 1959, Robert Smithson, a young abstract painter ... in the Dwan Gallery’s fall 1968 show, entitled “Earthworks.” But Smithson was the driving philosophical voice in large part because ...

Robert Smithson’s environmental artwork ... he focused on creating sculptures, particularly, “earthworks.” He died at 35, in a plane crash while working on a piece in Texas, “Amarillo ...

“For most of us, the little we know of Robert Smithson is that ... That’s in part because Smithson’s most important works are site-specific earthworks, designed to be consumed by time ...

The show’s ideal viewer is the Smithson obsessive, who will see just how radically his non-sites and earthworks ruptured not only the history of sculpture but his own juvenilia. Through Jan. 10.