Excursions to Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in 2025-26
We are delighted to announce that Land Art Contemporary and DIEP will organize a series of bus excursions to visit Robert Smithson's Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in 2025 and 2026.
Featured News
Works by Nancy Holt and Hanne Darboven on view in "Know" at Bodenrader in Chicago
Opening on April 12 in Chicago is the exhibition Know at Bodenrader, which features Nancy Holt's 1969 concrete poem Hammond and her 1973 grommet work Untitled . On view alongside with these two works by Holt is a hand-bound artist book by Hanne Darboven from the collection of Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Channeling Greater Power: Maria Hupfield, Lisa Le Feuvre, and Mikinaak Migwans at Wexner Center for the Arts
Join us this weekend at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, for a performative gathering with artist Maria Hupfield, guest curator Lisa Le Feuvre, and multimedia artist and scholar Mikinaak Migwans to call upon the artists and ancestors who surround Nancy Holt’s and Maria Hupfield’s artistic practices.
Archived News
Spring 2025 Press Round-Up
A selection of press featuring Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson from Spring 2025.
Smithson's Spiral Jetty film on view at Neue Nationalgalerie
We are happy to share that Robert Smithson's film Spiral Jetty (1970) is currently on view at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany. This marks the first time that the recently completed high-resolution scan of Spiral Jetty has been shown in Europe. The film was digitized from the original 16mm film in 2024 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, following the gift of this material by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Nancy Holt: Power Systems opens at the Wex
We are delighted to announce that Nancy Holt: Power Systems is now on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus Ohio. The solo exhibition features the most extensive inquiry to date into Nancy Holt's studies of systems, focusing on her interactive site-responsive sculptural installations that expose the basic technological systems found in the built environment.
Robert Smithson's Broken Circle / Spiral Hill designated as a Provincial Monument in the Netherlands
Land Art Contemporary and Holt/Smithson Foundation are delighted too announce that the Province of Drenthe in the Netherlands has just designated the artwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill by Robert Smithson as a provincial monument. This marks the development of a sustainable future for this world-renowned artwork in Emmen, the Netherlands.
Holt and Smithson on view at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, India
Works by both Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson will be on view in the upcoming exhibition Light into Space, organized by Dia Art Foundation at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, India.
Smithson on view at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Robert Smithson's Overgrown Structure (1971) is currently on view in the exhibition Mutual Aid. Art in collaboration with nature at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino.