July 12, 2011

The internets have been buzzing about Greg Allen’s bold move to create the Jetty Foundation, a Utah-based NGO dedicated to the local stewardship of Spiral Jetty’s site-specific context, and A Blade of Grass has been listening! We fund artists who make context an explicit aspect of their work. We do so because we love the possibilities that arise when art collides with stuff like local politics, or concepts like ownership, or what something is and how one can own it! Robert Smithson’s work and Spiral Jetty is therefore a cornerstone of our conceptual heritage. We applaud Allen for jumping into the fray of this. We have a hunch that Jetty Foundation is a very good idea that could illuminate how conceptual art functions best in the real world.

Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty

It’s impossible to understand Jetty Foundation’s mission without outlining a little dramatis personae ...

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