February 2024 Press Round-up

Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works

by Uzomah Ugwu

Arte Realizzata, February 1, 2024

“Marian Goodman Gallery and Holt/Smithson Foundation are pleased to announce the exhibition Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works opened on the 13th of January and will close on the 24th of February 2024.  “

In Discussion with Lisa Le Feuvre

by Uzomah Ugwu

Arte Realizzata, February 1, 2024

"Smithson's overall artistic practice made radical shifts in thinking about what art can be and where it can be found. These early drawings show his beginnings; they show ideas that are familiar with his better-known earthworks and sculptures and reveal where they started.“

Santa Fe’s New Museum on the Block

by Michael Abatemarco

New Mexico Magazine, February 14, 2024

“Vladem Contemporary, named for donors Ellen and Bob Vladem, opened in September in the city’s Railyard Arts District to grow the Museum of Art’s contemporary collection, provide spaces specifically designed for art based on new media and dedicated to education, and—in keeping with the museum’s original 1917 mission—to create a studio for artists in residence. “

Gropius Bau Berlin zeigt Nancy Holts umfangreiches Werk „Circles of Light“

[Gropius Bau Berlin shows Nancy Holt’s extensive work in “Circles of Light”]

Original German translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.

Kabinett, February 15, 2024

“From March 22nd to July 21st, the Gropius Bau is showing the most comprehensive presentation of work by Nancy Holt (1938-2014) in Germany to date. “

Top Five Picks

Southwest Contemporary, February 15, 2024

“The New Mexico Museum of Art is proud to partner with the Holt Smithson Foundation to present a special screening of Nancy Holt film and video works at the Jean Cocteau Cinema February 16-17, 2024. “

Robert Smithson, pop et collagiste avant lui-même

[Robert Smithson, pop and collagist before himself]

Original French translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.

by Thibault Bissirier

The Steidz, February 15, 2024

“Focused on the works on paper that Robert Smithson produced in the early 1960s, the exhibition organized by the Marian gallery with the Holt/Smithson Foundation marks a little-known milestone in the artist's career.“

Quinze expos gratuites (et très bien) à voir à Paris pendant les vacances

[Fifteen free (and very good) exhibitions to see in Paris during the holidays]

Original French translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.

Télérama, February 17, 2024

“The Holt/Smithson Foundation and the Marian Goodman Gallery present [Smithson’s] early work. A series of drawings, collages and watercolors from the 1960s, between esotericism, pop art and eroticism.”

Robert Smithson “Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works”

by Pascale Krief

Flash Art, February 21, 2024

“The works on paper mark a moment when Smithson’s oeuvre was in transition, breaking with his first body of pictorial works — which were close to abstract expressionism — yet still anticipating his minimalist and conceptual work. “

Installation view: Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus — Early Works, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 13 January – 24 February 2024
Photograph: Rebecca Fanuele
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

Archived News

Nancy Holt: Circles of Light at Gropius Bau, Berlin

Holt/Smithson Foundation and Gropius Bau are pleased to announce the most comprehensive presentation of Nancy Holt in Germany to date. Taking a journey through Holt’s output, starting with her first artwork made in 1966, Circles of Light expands over the Gropius Bau’s ground floor and atrium. Paying attention to Holt’s experimental approach to the interplay between the immaterial and the material, this exhibition underscores the singularity of Holt’s oeuvre.

Chapter Six of Tuesday Texts

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.