Hunting White Tailed Deer with a Camera, Northern Michigan, 1930, by George Shiras III. Mr. Shiras was a congressman from Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1905.

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American soldiers firing mortars at the Taliban, by Oleg Papov for the New York Times

How Do You Conserve Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’? - NYTimes.com

In 1972, a year before his death in a plane crash at 35, the artist Robert Smithson wrote, “I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day.” And with the creation of his greatest work — “Spiral Jetty,” the huge counterclockwise curlicue of black basalt rock that juts into the Great Salt Lake in rural Utah — he certainly put that conviction to the test.

As part of a conservation effort, the Dia Art Foundation is working to systematically document Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” over time.

2010 Winter Olympics as photographed by Ryan McGinley - The Highfliers

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‘Skin Fruit’ review - The New York Times

Roberta Smith writes in her review of the Jeff Koons’ curated exhibition: “The New Museum’s exhibition of artworks from the collection of Dakis Joannou, one of its trustees, has arrived. The project did not sound like a good idea when it was announced last fall. Seeing it up close does not change that.”

Ouch.

Image: Urs Fische’s “Noodles.”

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