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"Revolve" Screening in The Kitchen's Carlotta Schoolman Video Viewing Room

March 26, 2021

Nancy Holt's video Revolve is available to stream online through The Kitchen's Video Viewing Room celebrating the work of Carlotta Schoolman. Founded in 1971, The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, The Kitchen is hosting a series of conversations with artists with accompanying Video Viewing Rooms.

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Nancy Holt / Hanne Darboven "Time goes on and remains" at Sprüth Magers

March 25, 2021

Nancy Holt is featured in Sprüth Magers online exhibition Time goes on and remains from March 24 – May 5, 2021, which will also be on view at Art Basel OVR: Pioneers from March 24–27. The exhibition features key works by Holt and Hanne Darboven, with a previously unseen work of seven booklets that Darboven dedicated and sent to Holt in 1973 as its focal point.

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40th Anniversary Celebration of Nancy Holt's "Time Span"

March 23, 2021

We are delighted to partner with The Contemporary Austin and Austin Film Society this April to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Nancy Holt's sculpture Time Span (1981) at Laguna Gloria, in Austin, Texas.

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Nancy Holt and Sprüth Magers

March 10, 2021

We are delighted to announce representation of Nancy Holt by Sprüth Magers, expanding our on-going gallery representation with Parafin.

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Smithson's "Cambrian Map of Sulfur and Tar" in "Dream Monuments" at the Menil Drawing Institute

March 8, 2021

Robert Smithson's 1969 drawing Cambrian Map of Sulfur and Tar will be included in the Menil Collection exhibition Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s.

The exhibition will be on view at the Menil Drawing Institute from May 21—September 19, 2021.

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Nancy Holt to be featured at Punto de Vista Film Festival

March 3, 2021

Nancy Holt will be featured in the Retrospectives section of the 2021 Punto de Vista Film Festival in Pamplona, Spain. The film festival celebrates non-fiction films and "aims to revisit the history of film by connecting it to the present and, in turn, to give exposure to film-makers and artists whose work has been little seen in Spain."

The following Holt films will be screened at the festival:

Nancy Holt, Pine Barrens (1975)

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The Island Project: Point of Departure

January 29, 2021

Holt/Smithson Foundation is delighted to announce details of its first artist commission. The Island Project: Point of Departure invites Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, Joan Jonas, and Oscar Santillán to develop proposals responding to an island in Maine that was purchased sight-unseen by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson on September 30, 1971.

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Chapter Two of Tuesday Texts

January 6, 2021

We are delighted to announce that throughout January and February we will be publishing a second chapter of our Tuesday Text Series as part of our ongoing Scholarly Text Program, which invites thinkers to focus on a single artwork by Holt and/or Smithson.

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Research Fellow Announcement: Hikmet Sidney Loe

January 5, 2021

We are delighted to announce that Hikmet Sidney Loe has been awarded the first of our 2021 Research Fellowships. This Holt/Smithson Foundation program encourages new research on the work, ideas, and creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.