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Wednesday Writings: Chapter Three

July 15, 2025

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 Artforum, Harper's Bazaar, Studio International, Arts 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)

Keep up to date with additional content for the program on our Instagram and Threads.

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

An aerial viewq of Smithson's Broken Circle/Spiral Hill shortly after it's completion in 1971.

Bookings for 2026 Open Days at "Broken Circle/Spiral Hill" are open

June 2, 2026

We are pleased to share that bookings for the 2026 Open Days at Robert Smithson’s Broken Circle/Spiral Hill are now open.

Nancy Holt in "10 Years LA!"

May 11, 2026

Opening May 15, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present in their Los Angeles gallery 10 Years LA!, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s decade-long presence in Los Angeles. The exhibition is on show through August 8, 2026.

A close up of a golden sunrise through Holt's Sun Tunnels.

Film screening at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

April 2, 2026

On the occasion of the exhibition Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, we are pleased to present a special screening event.

Holt's "Sky Mound" drawings in "Waste" at Museum Ostwall

March 25, 2026

Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U presents the exhibition Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbish, which features works by Nancy Holt relating to her unfinished project Sky Mound (1984-). Waste is on view through July 26, 2026.

an artist working on a large drawing on the floor of their studio

Matt Mullican at Archives of American Art: 2026 Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture

February 27, 2026

The 2026 Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture invited artist Matt Mullican as our guest speaker, and our partner for the fifth event in the series was the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.

"Nancy Holt: MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater" at Goodwood Art Foundation

February 20, 2026

On show until November 2026, Goodwood Art Foundation in southern England presents Nancy Holt: MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater. The exhibition forms part of Goodwood’s annual summer program, spanning its two galleries and 70-acre landscape, which features wooded glades, ancient woodland, and meadowland.