New Publication: Blind Spot Folios featuring Nancy Holt and Richard Misrach

We are delighted to announce a new publication is available from Blind Spot featuring previously unseen photo-based work related to Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973-76) by Holt and Richard Misrach. ⁠

Blind Spot Folios is a new annual series and edition 001 contains a pair of volumes. Richard Misrach’s folio features images of Holt’s landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels that he photographed in 1988. Holt’s volume contains a selection of photo studies made in 1975 and excerpts from a Self-Interview, developed while she was conceiving the work.⁠

Offset printed by Trifolio in Verona, Italy on Mohawk Superfine 135gsm paper. Each volume is composed of four unbound nested leaves, folded to 11 x 15 inches, housed in a custom embossed Colorplan folder with die cuts. The folder is offset printed with a conversation between Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, and artist Richard Misrach.⁠

Print run limited to 750 copies, 100 of which are available with an 11 x 15 inch initialed and numbered plate by Richard Misrach.⁠

Now available at blindspot.com.

Nancy Holt “Sun Tunnels” (1973-76) is part of the collection of Dia Art Foundation, acquired with support from Holt/Smithson Foundation’ © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation; Holt’s photo studies are © Holt/Smithson Foundation; Richard Misrach’s photographs are © Richard Misrach courtesy of Pace Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles.⁠

Archived News

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.

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

"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.

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.