One of Utah’s largest and best-known works of art has received a new ... Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, the 1,500-foot-long coil of basalt rock on the northeast edge of the Great Salt Lake ...

Smithson sculpted basalt rock, salt crystals ... in entropy and an important icon of Land Art. However, it also contributed to Spiral Jetty‘s relative obscurity at the time.

Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Regarded as one of the most significant land art works in the world ...

ranging from historic buildings to outdoor rock and art features. These are the gems that gained national recognition in 2024: Spiral Jetty — Utah's official work of land art — is one of the ...