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.
