an exhibition view of Groundswell at the Nasher

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

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Films by Holt and Smithson on view at The Museum of Modern Art

Three films by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson are currently on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collection gallery 411 of the David Geffen Wing. This presentation focuses on Spiral Jetty (1970), Swamp (1971), and Sun Tunnels (1978). Newly restored scans of the first two works are presented as part of a collaboration between Holt/Smithson Foundation and MoMA to preserve their moving-image work.

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Chapter Nine of Tuesday Texts

Throughout February 2026, we are publishing the ninth 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. Developed as a tool for researchers at all stages, the Scholarly Text Program aims to publish two essays on each work, presenting differing opinions and approaches and drawing connections to topics that range from geology and ecology to poetry, architecture, public art, sculpture, drawing, film, philosophy, site, and

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"Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics" at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

What does it mean to notice how we see? "Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics" at the MAK Center at the Schindler House in Los Angeles offers an encounter where art and architecture shape perception together. This exhibition to brings Holt’s work into a responsive dialogue with the Schindler House, inviting visitors to experience art and architecture as partners in seeing.

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Nancy Holt concrete poem on show in Paris at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles

Nancy Holt started making art in 1966, and her first works took the form of concrete poems: artworks testing the structure, content, and form of language. A key concrete poem, "The World Though a Circle," from 1972 is currently on show in the exhibition Deep Fields at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris until March 23, 2026.