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Back in September Robert Smithson's Floating Island was followed by a replica of the Gates gates (attached to an outboard motor.) Shoving off from DUMBO, with it's saffron flag waving in the wind, it sailed free on the water chasing the island. From November 18 through December 22, the boat with its makeshift saffron sail will be on display along with a film that documents the adventure. As the press release states, "It's about artists on the fringe, overly regulated public space, and firm opinions on a lot of bad public art."

"Floating Island," Robert Smithson's Central Park on the water, had a special visitor on Thursday when a would-be Christo pursued the moving art installation on a motorboat topped with a saffron gate. Don't worry though, the apparently very serious motor-boaters never made it on to the island.

-Not surprisingly (though the Post seems to think it is), many New York would like to sleep with Angelina Jolie.

There is so much going on in the five boroughs of New York, so many people, so many buildings, that it can be easy to forget that, unless you are in the Bronx, you are living on an island. It's just that memory lapse that a new exhibit from the late Robert Smithson and the Whitney tries to counteract.

- The summer menu at Pylos

Earth art is just one of those art movements that drives museums to drink. After all, how is one supposed to display or preserve often large scale natural works based on the concept of organic decay? For this reason, many earth artists sometimes seem to be neglected by major museums, in favor of their more easily exhibited contemporaries. However, this summer the Whitney is bucking that trend by presenting the first comprehensive American retrospective of the work of Robert Smithson.