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After 35 years, Debate Over 'Partially Buried Woodshed' Continues
Kent State Art Department Hosts Symposium and Exhibition
by WKSU's JULIE GRANT


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Julie Grant
 
People are coming to Kent State University from around the country over the next two weeks for a conference about one piece of artwork. The work is hard to find, it's hard to tell if you do find it; You can't really see it, and you might not even consider it art.
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What the ?Partially Buried Woodshed? looked like before its demise.
Artist Robert Smithson watches backhoe driver Richard Helmling, January 22, 1970.
Smithson directs Helmling on the pattern to pile the dirt on top of the woodshed, January 22, 1970.
Current photographs of the Woodshed site
 
 

Related Links & Resources
Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles Exhibitions on Tour

Kent State University School of Art

Robert Smithson's Estate

 
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