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Friday Film Program Weekend Screening

For the last nine weeks the first edition of Holt/Smithson Foundation’s Friday Film Program has presented a selected moving image work by Nancy Holt and/or Robert Smithson on Vimeo and IGTV for twenty-four hours.

This weekend all nine films in the Friday Film Program are accessible on Vimeo, along with introductions by artists Charlotte Prodger, Dorothy Cross, Lee Ranaldo, and Katrina Palmer, as well as by members of the Foundation team.

The screening starts at 12 noon Mountain Time (the time zone of our home base in New Mexico) Friday June 5, showing through Monday June 8 at 12 noon MDT. If you are planning a marathon one-sitting viewing, make sure you have around four and a half hours before 12 noon MT on Monday.

The moving image works can be watched over the weekend in any order, at any time, and as many times as you like.

Both Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson frequently chose film and video as their medium. Above you can see Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson filming at the site of Broken Circle/Spiral Hill using Holt's 16 mm Bolex camera, which she used to create of a number of the films in the Friday Film Program.

The full Program comprises the following works:

April 3, 2020: Nancy Holt, Utah Sequences (1970)

April 10, 2020: Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970)

April 17, 2020: Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1978)

April 24, 2020: Nancy Holt, Revolve (1977)

May 1, 2020: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Swamp (1971)

May 8, 2020: Nancy Holt, Pine Barrens (1975)

May 15, 2020: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, East Coast/West Coast (1969)

May 22, 2020: Nancy Holt, The Making of Amarillo Ramp (1973-2013)

May 29, 2020: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Mono Lake (1968-2004)

Our next digital program will be the first edition of our Tuesday Texts Program. Through June and July we will publish new writing each week on single works by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in our Scholarly Text series. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for updates.

Archived News

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Chapter Seven of Tuesday Texts

We are happy to announce that throughout October we are publishing a seventh 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. 

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.

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Letters and early drawings by Robert Smithson published in Centre Pompidou journal

The Fall issue of the Centre Pompidou journal Les cahiers du musée national d’art moderne publishes for the very first time Robert Smithson’s letters and writings from Rome, accompanied by previously unpublished early drawings.

The French language publication includes translations of letters Smithson wrote to Nancy Holt in 1959-1961 and letters Smithson sent to George Lester between 1960 and 1963. George Lester offered Smithson his first solo international exhibition at Galleria George Lester in Rome in 1961.