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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.

Archived News

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Soft Network Benefit Auction

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. 

Nancy Holt's "Starfire" (1986) as installed at the Powder Art Foundation, Utah, 2025

“Starfire” at Powder Art Foundation Fall Open Day and Utah Museum of Fine Arts Land Art Week

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.

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Portuguese translation of Smithson's "Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction"

We are pleased to share our collaboration with the São Paulo–based Robert Smithson scholar and professor Antônio Ewbank and publisher Editora Ébria, presenting the first Portuguese translation of the text of Robert Smithson's Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970). Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction is a four-part fold-out work created by Smithson for Aspen Magazine No. 8: The Fluxus Issue, guest edited by Dan Graham and designed by George Maciunas.

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Nancy Holt in "10 Years LA!"

From May to August 2026, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers presented 1 0 Years LA!,at their Los Angeles gallery, an exhibition celebrating the gallery's decade-long presence in the city.