{"id":3214,"date":"2018-01-31T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2018-01-31T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:44:45","slug":"economics-of-the-spiral-jetty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/economics-of-the-spiral-jetty\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics of the Spiral Jetty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spiral Jetty is a 1,500 foot long, 15 feet wide piece of land art by American sculptor Robert Smithson. \u00a0It is so large, in-fact, that it can be seen from space as illustrated in the photograph below. So how exactly does such a gargantuan project, requiring massive machinery to move earth get funded, and what economics surround the work? Turns out, the sculpture was financed in part by a $9,000 grant from an art gallery in New York called the Virginia Dawn Gallery, and was eventually donated by Smithson&#8217;s wife to the Dia Art Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Spiral-Jetty-from-space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3215\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Spiral-Jetty-from-space-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Spiral-Jetty-from-space-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Spiral-Jetty-from-space.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>https:\/\/www.sculpture.org\/documents\/scmag04\/julaug04\/spiraljetty\/julaug04_spiraljetty.shtml<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spiral_Jetty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spiral Jetty is a 1,500 foot long, 15 feet wide piece of land art by American sculptor Robert Smithson. \u00a0It is so large, in-fact, that it can be seen from space as illustrated in the photograph below. So how exactly does such a gargantuan project, requiring massive machinery to move earth get funded, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/economics-of-the-spiral-jetty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Economics of the Spiral Jetty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[839,47],"coauthors":[2602],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-economics","tag-land-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}