Approach to the Pavilions, Glenstone Museum. (Photo: Iwan Baan)
10 Little-known Art Installations and Collections Worth Checking Out
One offers postwar and contemporary works on a 19th-century dairy farm.
- Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Robert Smithson’s 1,500-foot spiral earthwork.
- Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah. Four 18-foot-long concrete cylinders created by artist Nancy Holt frame the sun on the horizon during the summer and winter solstices.
- Brant Foundation’s Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut. Career-spanning works by Urs Fischer, David Salle, and other artists occupy a 1909 structure formerly used for cold storage.
- The Warehouse, Dallas. The collections here aim to create dialogue around postwar modern and contemporary art.
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Permanent exhibits include Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room―My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe.
- The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. A converted Army base houses works that inextricably connect art and the landscape.
- Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York.Dia Art Foundation’s collection of art from the 1960s to the present fills a former Nabisco box-printing factory.
- Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland. Post-World War II artworks are integrated with modern architecture and 300 acres of meadows, waterways, forest, and organic landscaping.
- Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont. Displays of postwar and contemporary art within a 19th century dairy farm.
- The Lightning Field, western New Mexico. Four-hundred polished stainless-steel poles attract the weather and visitors to a remote high-desert region.