Wednesday Writings: Chapter Two

June 14, 2022

This June we are delighted to share Chapter Two of Wednesday Writings, one of Holt/Smithson Foundation's digital programs.

During Chapter Two we will focus on writings by Robert Smithson. Every Wednesday in June we will be publishing a text by Smithson to his collection of writings on our website.
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Smithson's writings 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 Two Schedule

Week One

Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967)

Week Two

Robert Smithson, A Provisional Theory of Nonsites (1968)

Week Three

Robert Smithson, Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers (1966)

Week Four

Robert Smithson, The Spiral Jetty (1972)

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Chapter One of Wednesday Writings can be found here.

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Image: Photo booth snapshots of Robert Smithson, 1968

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Chapter Six of Tuesday Texts

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We are happy to announce that throughout January we will be publishing a sixth chapter of our Tuesday Text Series as part of our ongoing Scholarly Text Program, which invites thinkers to focus on a single artwork by Holt and/or Smithson. This chapter of Tuesday Texts will focus on artworks by Robert Smithson.

Every Tuesday we will publish a text to our website that includes images selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes pointing to the author’s references.