Robert Smithson with Leonor Antunes, Nairy Baghramian, Daniel Boyd, Tony Cragg, Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, An-My Lê, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Ana Mendieta, Delcy Morelos, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Giuseppe Penone, Tavares Strachan, Álvaro Urbano, Adrián Villar Rojas, and James Welling

We are delighted to share details of Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson, an exhibition launching at Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles on November 8, 2025, on show until January 24, 2026. In 1968 Robert Smithson declared: “A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance.” This exhibition takes him at his word. Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson invites eighteen artists to join him on the floor as partners who resist, improvise, and extend the rhythm of his thinking.

From his early 1960s drawings confronting the crumbling ideals of European Modernism with a queer sensibility, to his searing critiques of industrial capitalism and attention to geological timescales, Casting a Glance positions Smithson as both provocateur and visionary. He called for artists to infiltrate corporations, championed the agency of all earth-beings, and gravitated toward the exhausted edges of suburbia over the charismatic metropolitan centers. Smithson’s innovative conception of the site/Nonsite dialectic, his redefinition of what sculpture could be, and his conviction that art is a philosophical encounter with the Earth’s surface converge in this vibrant dance among artists. 

In this exhibition, selection of rarely seen works by Smithson—chosen in collaboration with the artists—offers a journey into his radical imagination.