December 2023 Press Round-up

‘Nancy Holt / Inside Outside’ at MACAB – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Mousse, November 28, 2023

“The provocations of “inside and outside” are present throughout the five decades of Holt’s artistic production. She observes and unravels these perceptual demarcations in buildings and in society at large, asking questions of what remains open and exposed in the exterior, and what remains concealed inside, out of sight.”

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Once Dominated by Macho Men and Dynamite, Land Art Came to Life Through Women’s Work

by Jonathon Keats

Forbes, November 30, 2023

“As a major new exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center shows, … female artists significantly expanded the purview of land art and helped foster the transition to the environmental artworks that are so vital today.”

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Planets and Earth: Two Shows at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

by William Sarradet

Glasstire, December 1, 2023

“The artists featured in Groundswell: Women of Land Art are captivated by the transformation of land into evocative images and infrastructure that beckons human passage. The enigmatic allure of these structures, often alien and otherworldly, serves as a captivating showcase.”

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Uncovering the Tracks

by Matthew Kangas

Sculpture, December 1, 2023

“More than 10 years in the making, Suzaan Boettger’s biography of Robert Smithson has something for everyone—artists, art historians, art critics, psychiatrists, and art collectors. “

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The Dallas-Fort Worth Art Exhibitions You Must See Before 2023 Ends

by Eve Hill-Angus

D Magazine, December 5, 2023

“If there is one show you must see this year, it is Groundswell. Do not merely take my word for it. The New York Times reviewed it twice (once in its magazine), and the entire country seems to have been catching flights to Dallas since Nasher curator Leigh Arnold’s opus opened in September. “

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Delcy Morelos’s “El abrazo”

by Michael Kurtz

e-flux, December 15, 2023

“Here lie the ruins of the American avant-garde. Wood salvaged from an installation by Dan Graham, offcuts from a felt piece by Robert Morris, and scraps of flooring from a Dorothea Rockburne display. Mounds of soil recall Robert Smithson’s geological samples and rows of pipe echo Walter de Maria’s Broken Kilometer (1979) of brass rods lined up on the floor.”

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‘Inside the Spiral’ Unearths Robert Smithson’s Childhood, Catholicism, Art, and Death

by Sally Eckhoff

The Village Voice, December 20, 2023

“Suzaan Boettger’s biography of the artist best known for ‘Spiral Jetty’ looks at his passion for art and religion, and his obsession with his dead brother.”

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Las mejores exposiciones de 2023: una sugerente polifonía de voces y estilos

[The best exhibitions of 2023: a suggestive polyphony of voices and styles]

El Cultural

El Español, December 21, 2023

Nancy Holt / Dentro Fuera – MACBA, Barcelona

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10 Must-See Shows in Europe in 2024

by Vivienne Chow

Artnet, December 22, 2023

“Featuring works including film, video, photography, poetry, sculptures, and installations …, “Circles of Light” at Gropius Bau is the most comprehensive survey exhibition of [Nancy Holt] in Germany to date.”

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Archived News

Soft Network Benefit Auction

We are pleased to participate in the Soft Network Benefit Auction, open on Artsy from September 23 until October 7, 2026. The auction brings together works in support of Soft Network and the Artist Foundations and Estate Leaders List (AFELL), an international network for artists and stewards of artists’ estates and legacies. Holt/Smithson Foundation has donated two rare works of art by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson to the auction to help further this goal. 

“Starfire” at Powder Art Foundation Fall Open Day and Utah Museum of Fine Arts Land Art Week

On October 2, from 11 am to 3 pm, Powder Art Foundation will host a Fall Open House at Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah where Nancy Holt’s Starfire (1986) can be experienced. Starfire joined the collection of Powder Art Foundation last year. The sculpture comprises eight fire pits arranged in the configuration of the Big Dipper and the North Star, bringing the sky down to earth.

Portuguese translation of Smithson's "Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction"

We are pleased to share our collaboration with the São Paulo–based Robert Smithson scholar and professor Antônio Ewbank and publisher Editora Ébria, presenting the first Portuguese translation of the text of Robert Smithson's Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970). Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction is a four-part fold-out work created by Smithson for Aspen Magazine No. 8: The Fluxus Issue, guest edited by Dan Graham and designed by George Maciunas.

Nancy Holt in "10 Years LA!"

From May to August 2026, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers presented 1 0 Years LA!,at their Los Angeles gallery, an exhibition celebrating the gallery's decade-long presence in the city.