Nancy Holt on Dartmoor

Last weekend "Nancy Holt: MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater" at Goodwood Art Foundation

This is the last weekend to see the solo exhibition Nancy Holt: MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater at Goodwood Art Foundationin southern England. The exhibition is part of Goodwood’s annual summer programme, which spans its two galleries and 70-acre landscape, with wooded glades, ancient woodland, and meadowland.

Drawing on astronomy and geology, Holt expanded how art interacts with the landscape and anticipated later ecological concerns. Her practice linked human experience to larger natural and cosmic systems, often using sunlight, shadows, and constellations to make viewers conscious of their position in space and time. Holt’s integration of art and the natural environment resonates with Goodwood’s founding principles. The exhibition is her most substantial presentation in the UK to date.

The exhibition takes its title from a 1969 concrete poem by Holt and features key works, including Mirrors of Light II (1974); Ventilation System (1985–1992); three 1969 photoworks made in the UK, Trail Markers, Wistman’s Wood, and Old Sarum Ruins; and the first posthumous presentation of the 1974 outdoor sculpture Hydra’s Head.

Nancy Holt at Dartmoor National Park, UK in 1969

Photograph: Robert Smithson

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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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. 

Nancy Holt's "Starfire" (1986) as installed at the Powder Art Foundation, Utah, 2025

“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.

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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.