We are very happy to share the launch of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Friends Program, a close community of supporters committed to advancing the creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson and ensuring their ideas remain active in the world.

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.

The papers of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson are held at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Since Holt's papers joined the Archives in 2021, an increasing amount of material has been made accessible to researchers, most recently the Project Files, digitized this year in 2026. This series documents more than 50 projects developed by Holt from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, offering insights into her working processes and the development of her ideas from initial conception through to completion.

Works from Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson will soon be on view in Soleil Noir: Petrole et art contemporain / Black Sun: Petroleum and Contemporary Art at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. Curated by Morad Montazami, Madeleine de Colnet, and Caroline Courrioux, this exhibition uses the theme of oil to address the question of artworks in the era of global warming.⁠

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. 

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.