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.
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.
Our Research Fellowships aim to encourage new research on the work, ideas, and creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson. Our first Research Fellowship Program launches in 2021 and we are calling for applications. The application deadline is February 1, 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.
This weekend we conclude our second season of Friday Films with a screening of Mono Lake (1968/2004), a collaborative film by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.
This weekend we continue with the fourth screening in our second season of Friday Films: Nancy Holt’s Bob with Books (1971).
We are pleased to announce details of our 2021 exhibition partnership with Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford, Ireland. Light and Language launches on March 27, 2021, and is on display through to October 10, 2021. This exhibition presents Nancy Holt’s alongside the artists A.K.
Robert Smithson: Primordial Beginnings is currently on view at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris and will be on show though to January 9, 2021.
Primordial Beginnings investigates Smithson’s exploration of, as he said in 1972, “origins and primordial beginnings, […] the archetypal nature of things.”
This weekend we continue with the third screening in our second season of Friday Films: Nancy Holt’s The Making of Amarillo Ramp (1973/2013).