We are delighted to announce a new publication is available from Blind Spot featuring previously unseen photo-based work related to Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973-76) by Holt and Richard Misrach.
Imagery and digitized film of Robert Smithson's earthwork Asphalt Rundown (1969) is currently on view in the exhibition Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Mining Photography examines the relationship between photography and extractive industries.
To kick-off our participation in the World Weather Network—a worldwide constellation of 28 arts agencies formed in response to the climate crisis—we will be looking at the changing conditions at Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty since its completion in 1970.
We are pleased to announce our first 2022 Holt/Smithson Foundation Research Fellowship awardee: Rory O'Dea.
In response to the global climate emergency, Holt/Smithson Foundation has joined twenty-seven arts organizations across the world to form the World Weather Network, a ground-breaking constellation of “weather stations” located across the world in oceans, deserts, mountains, farmland, rainforests, observatories, lighthouses, and cities.
We are delighted to launch Chapter Two of our digital program, Wednesday Writings. During Chapter Two we will focus on writings by Robert Smithson. Every Wednesday in June we will be publishing a text by Smithson to his collection of writings on our website.
We are very pleased to announce the exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside launches this June, produced by Bildmuseet, one of Sweden’s foremost contemporary art venues. The exhibition explores the artist’s rich artistic legacy through a selection of works spanning 1967 to 1992. This is the most ambitious exhibition of her work to date. Perceptions and demarcations of being "inside" and "outside" guide this survey exhibition.
Works by Robert Smithson will be included in the group exhibition The Power of Wonder: New Materialisms in Contemporary Art at Museum unter Tage in Bochum, Germany.
Two artworks that Robert Smithson originally made during his time in Germany in 1969 will be on view in the exhibition: Mirror Displacement: Indoors (1969) and Essen Earth and Mirrors (for Bernd and Hilla Becher) (1969).
Author and art historian James Nisbet has recently written a new book titled Second Site, which explores "how environmental change and the passage of time transform the meaning of site-specific art." Second Site examines the effect of changing conditions on a number of site-specific artworks, including both Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973-76) and Robert Smithson's