Design Gallery

The Spiral Jetty

The Spiral Jetty, 4.6 metres-wide earthwork sculpture by Robert Smithson, created in 1970. Its total length is 460 m. It was originally black from its basalt rock, and is now encrusted with salt. Near Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA

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Abstract, Aerial, Art, Artwork, Coil, Coiled, Counterclockwise, Design, Dia Art Foundation, Encrustation, From Above, From The Air, Graphic, Installation, Lakes, Landscape, Pattern, Rozel Point, Saline, Salt, Sculptor

Nest of the White-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus)

Nest of the White-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus), a species discovered in 2014. The male creates the sand nest, about 2 m in diameter, on the ocean floor to attract a mate. The pair use it only once. It is the only pufferfish known to create such circular nests. Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Decorative artwork of metal objects

Decorative artwork of metal objects on side of a building in a tiny town with a big culture; it has two galleries, and two museums, fewer than 60 inhabitants, and several buildings from the 1880s. Silverton, near Broken Hill, far western New South Wales, Australia

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Australian, Building, Corrugated Iron, Decoration, Design, Exterior, Metal, Sculpture, Tin, Wall, Whimsical