The Biennale will also feature several exhibitions with Texas ties, such as a new country song created by conceptual artist Mario Garcia Torres about the earthworks artist Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in Texas.

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Stone says Nagorka takes some of her inspiration from environmental sculptors like Robert Smithson, whose work Spiral Jetty changed the landscape near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and Andy Goldsworthy, recent subject of the documentary film Rivers and Tides.

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