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Thursday Thoughts: Series One

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.

Thursday Thoughts: Series One

Robert Smithson with William C. Lipke "Fragments of a Conversation" (1968)

This interview between Smithson and William C. Lipke (Professor of Art History at Cornell University) took place on the occasion of the 1969 Earth Art exhibition at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Nancy Holt with Scott Gutterman "Oral History Interview for the Archives of American Art" (1992)

Holt's interview with Scott Gutterman for the Archives of American Art covers numerous topics: Holt's childhood, her early career as an artist in New York City, and her System Works.

Robert Smithson with Alison Sky, "Entropy Made Visible" (1973)

Published in On Site #4, 1973, this interview with Alison Sky took place about two months before Smithson’s death. Although published posthumously, Smithson and Sky completed the editing of the text together.

Nancy Holt with Joan Marter, "Systems: A Conversation with Nancy Holt" (2013)

This interview published in Sculpture Magazine between Nancy Holt and Joan Marter focuses on Holt's System Works and public sculptures.

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Holt artworks in "All Light: Light and Space yesterday and today" at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Light was a constant source of fascination for Nancy Holt throughout her four decades of artmaking. Whether drawn from the stars or powered by electricity, she approached light as a phenomenon, an idea, and a material in itself. Three of her pivotal works investigating the perceptual qualities of light are featured in All Light: Light and Space yesterday and today, opening on Friday, November 14, 2025 at Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, and on view through March 1, 2026.

Robert Smithson looking at the camera from the back of a stationwagon loaded with rocks

Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson

In 1968 Robert Smithson declared: “A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance.” "Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson" at Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles takes him at his word and invites eighteen artists to join Smithson on the floor as partners who resist, improvise, and extend the rhythm of his thinking.

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Holt's "Locators with Loci" on view in "Minimal" at the Bourse de Commerce

Nancy Holt's 1972 sculpture Locators with Loci is on view in the exhibition Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris on show through January 18, 2026. Curated by Jessica Morgan, Director of Dia Art Foundation, the exhibition traces the diversity of this Minimal Art since the 1960s through over a hundred works by some forty international artists, many from the Pinault Collection.