Temporarily adding a nomadic landmass to archipelago New York, Robert Smithson's long-unrealized plan for an artificial island (a towed barge planted with trees and plants) to partially circumnavigate Manhattan will be posthumously realized next month: "The project, budgeted at around $150,000, is a collaboration of the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York-based art group Minetta Brook, and will run from September 17 to 25" - Archrecord
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...(it looks like the Michael Kimmelman review of the Smithson show at the Whitney is still available on the NYT website.)
The following link more or less just repeats everything stated perfectly well above – except: BLDGBLOG announces a new continent...
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