Jennifer L. Roberts

Jennifer L. Roberts is the Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. She is the author of Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History. Her forthcoming book is Contact: Art and the Pull of Print.

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  1. Robert Smithson’s Monument to Contingency

    Spiral Jetty never stops changing.

    aerial black-and-white photo of spiral earthwork sticking out from shore into lake
    Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty, 1970. (Photograph: Robert Smithson, 1970 / © Holt / Smithson Foundation. Artwork: © Holt / Smithson Foundation; Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York.)