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Online Viewing Room: Robert Smithson at Marian Goodman Gallery

November 17, 2020

We are pleased to announce the launch of an Online Viewing Room at Marian Goodman Gallery, presented on the occasion of two exhibitions marking our partnership with the gallery.

The viewing room features the exhibition Hypothetical Islands at Marian Goodman Gallery, London which pays attention to Smithson’s enduring interest in islands. It takes a journey through more than fifty works. It moves from mobile to spiral islands, through forking jetties, meanders, concrete seas, and rising volcanoes, and includes a program of films. These moving image works feature in our current Friday Film Program

Alongside a video walk through of the London exhibition, the Online Viewing Room presents highlights from Primordial Beginnings, scheduled to launch at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris in December. The Paris exhibition investigates Smithson’s exploration of, to use his own words, “origins and primordial beginnings, […] the archetypal nature of things.”

Both exhibitions feature rarely seen works from the artist Nancy Holt’s personal collection. Holt married Smithson in 1963 and managed his Estate between 1973 and 2014.

Please visit the website of Marian Goodman Gallery for details of visiting the exhibitions.

Image courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

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Thursday Thoughts: Series One

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In May of 2025 we shared our first series of Thursday Thoughts—a weekly series publishing interviews with Robert Smithson or Nancy Holt to our website. Interviews with Holt and Smithson provide a distinct vantage into their artistic process and the evolution of their thoughts throughout time.

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Excursions to Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in 2025-26

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Works by Nancy Holt and Hanne Darboven on view in "Know" at Bodenrader in Chicago

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