Holt/Smithson Foundation is delighted to announce an exhibition of Robert Smithson’s early, and largely unseen, drawings at MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Rome is still falling brings together twenty-two early works Smithson made between 1960 and 1964, the majority presented to the public for the first time, from the collection of Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Holt/Smithson Foundation congratulates Oscar Santillán on his selection as a 2022-2023 Senior Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Santillán is one of the five artists selected to participate in The Island Project: Point of Departure, responding to an island off the coast of Maine that Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson purchased sight-unseen in 1971.
Works by Nancy Holt are currently on view in the exhibition Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa. Inside the gallery space is Holt's 1985 sculpture Electrical Lighting for Reading Room: a room-sized installation built of standard industrial materials that are part of Holt’s series of System Works.
On October 19, 2022 the Palais de Tokyo and Lafayette Anticipations present the two-part exhibition Humpty \ Dumpty, a project by artist Cyprien Gaillard.
Join us on Thursday October 13th for a webinar by 2022 Holt/Smithson Research Fellow, Rory O'Dea.
Rory will share his research surrounding Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt's time and work in the Pine Barrens, NJ.
We are happy to announce that throughout October we will be publishing a fourth 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.
Every Tuesday we will publish a text to our website that includes images selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes pointing to the author’s references.
Robert Smithson's Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965) is on view in the exhibition The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Bildmuseet is hosting a conference on Friday, October 7th with conversations and lectures on the work of Nancy Holt to accompany the major solo-exhibition at the museum: Nancy Holt / Inside Outside.
We are very pleased to announce the first in a ten-year series of Annual Lectures, a new Holt/Smithson Foundation program that invites artists, writers, and thinkers to extend the creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.