Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Floating Island

As the Copenhagen Climate Treaty negotiations get underway this week, it seems apt to revisit two 1970 works by Robert Smithson, an artist whose preoccupations seem close to our own: Spiral Jetty, and Floating Island To Travel Around the Island of Manhattan. Go to http://timothycone.wordpress.com/ to check out the video and other art videos by Tim Cone