Wednesday Writings: Chapter Three

In July we shared Chapter Three of Wednesday Writings, one of Holt/Smithson Foundation's digital programs. This chapter’s focus is on writings by Robert Smithson, which provide an unparalleled vantage into the concepts, influences, and ways of thinking that guided his work. Smithson wrote extensively and published his writings in exhibition catalogs and publications such as ArtforumHarper's Bazaar, Studio InternationalArts Magazine, and Avalanche.

⁠Wednesday Writings Chapter Three

Week One
Robert Smithson, A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art (1968)

Week Two
Robert Smithson, A Cinematic Atopia (1971)

Week Three
Robert Smithson, Cultural Confinement (1972)

Week Four
Robert Smithson, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape  (1973)
 

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Check out our previous chapters of Wednesday Writings:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Robert Smithson, 400 Seattle Horizons [destroyed] (1969)
Installation view: "557,087" curated by Lucy R. Lippard, Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, September 5—October 5, 1969
Instamatic snapshots
3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 9.5 cm) each

Archived News

Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson

 "Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson" launches at Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles on November 8, 2025, with an opening reception between 6 – 8 pm and on show until January 24, 2026. In 1968 Robert Smithson declared: “A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance.” This exhibition takes him at his word ing invites eighteen artists to join Smithson on the floor as partners who resist, improvise, and extend the rhythm of his thinking.

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.