We are happy to announce that throughout January we will be publishing a sixth 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. This chapter of Tuesday Texts will focus on artworks by Robert 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.

Both Holt and Smithson opened new ways of thinking about what art might be, and where it might be found. Their ideas resonate through artistic and cultural production of the present, developing innovative ways of exploring our relationship with the planet and expanding the limits of artistic practice. The Scholarly Text Program expands these legacies by commissioning and publishing new writing.

The single artworks range from landmark earthworks and texts to lesser known drawings, moving image works, and rarely seen two-dimensional works. Focused as a tool for researchers at all stages, the Scholarly Text Program will publish two essays on each work, presenting differing opinions and approaches and making links to topics that range from geology to ecology, poetry, architecture, public art, sculpture, drawing, film, philosophy, site, and all the stops between.

Chapter Six of Tuesday Texts publishes the following essays:

Trey Burns, "Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport Project, 1966-67"

Teresa Hantke, "Second Stage Injector"

Sean J Patrick Carney, "Florida, Man: Robert Smithson’s Hypothetical Continent in Shells: Lemuria"

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Click on the following links to read the essays in previous Chapters of our Tuesday Text series:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five