Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Alan Michelson on Robert Smithson
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970), 2019. © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Victoria Sambunaris
Event details
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street
New York, New York
Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here.
Alan Michelson was born in Buffalo in 1953. A Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River, Michelson works in a range of media and with materials sourced from both indigenous and Western cultures to create site-specific works that draw on repressed histories. Recent solo exhibitions include Historicity, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario (2018); Wolf Nation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); and Prophetstown, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York (2024). Recent group exhibitions include those at MoMA PS1, Queens (2021); Tate Modern, London (2022); and the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2023). Michelson lives in New York.
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
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Photo: Don Stahl
Artists on Robert Smithson
Artists on Robert Smithson is the fifth volume in a series that takes as its starting point Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lectures. It features contributions by Matthew Buckingham, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mark Dion, Teresita Fernández, Trevor Paglen, Rayyane Tabet, and Diana Thater.
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
This comprehensive publication considers Smithson's sculpture Spiral Jetty in relation to its eponymous companions—a text work and a film.