"Repetitive Vision" by Yayoi Kusama can be seen at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh.
People from all around the world travel specifically to visit New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Walking through the Museum of Modern Art is like visiting an art history textbook, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has one of the largest collections of Asian art and historical objects anywhere.
But did you know that at the University of Iowa, you can see German Expressionism and its influence play itself out in artworks spanning a century? Or that a little town in West Texas and a pair of small cities in the Rust Belt are hotbeds of contemporary art? Many of the finest art experiences in the United States are off the beaten path -- some pretty far off. If you follow the right American byways, your artistic journey can take you to some remarkable places, and amazing work.
"Spiral Jetty" in the Great Salt Lake, Utah.
On the road
Every fan of contemporary art wishes they had thought of Erin Hogan's idea: Take a break from work, pack the car, and head out west to check out some of the massive landscape-altering and site-specific artworks that seem to litter the Southwest. And, of course, write a book about it. The Dia Art Foundation, based in New York, maintains two of the sites she visited and chronicled in "Spiral Jetta."
The title of Hogan's book is a pun on the Robert Smithson earthwork "Spiral Jetty," an almost inestimable and incredible work. And it's far from just about everything, in a remote area of the Great Salt Lake. Directions include:
"6. Immediately you cross a cattle guard. Call this cattle guard #1. Including this one, you cross four cattle guards before you reach Rozel Point and Spiral Jetty."
And: "10. At this gate the Class D (gravel) road designation ends. From here, four-wheel drive, high clearance vehicles are strongly recommended."
- Search for more photos of "Spiral Jetty."
Eventually, you reach the Great Salt Lake, and before you lies Smithson's masterwork: a jetty constructed from earth and basalt, pushing out into the water, and then spiraling down to a point. It wasn't always so. About four years after Smithson finished it, the water level of the lake rose, submerging the work. But because of the Southwest's long drought, "Spiral Jetty" reemerged in 2002.
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