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 Eight of Tuesday Texts

August 1, 2025

We are happy to announce that throughout August we are publishing the eighth 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.

Every Tuesday will be publishing a new essay or selecting an essay first published in 2019 on our website, which all include images selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes pointing to the author’s references.

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Wednesday Writings: Chapter Three

July 15, 2025

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

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Holt and Smithson films in "Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art" at Lakeland Arts in UK

July 1, 2025

Works by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson are on view in Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art at Lakeland Arts Abbot Hall in Kirkland, Kendall, UK.

Joan Jonas: An Island Departure, with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson at the Farnsworth Art Museum

June 10, 2025

Holt/Smithson Foundation, in collaboration with the Farnsworth Art Museum, is pleased to announce Joan Jonas: An Island Departure, with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, an exhibition presenting a newly commissioned body of work by artist Joan Jonas (born 1936). The exhibition will be on view from October 4, 2025 through February 2026.

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Thursday Thoughts: Series One

June 1, 2025

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.

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Excursions to Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in 2025-26

May 1, 2025

We are delighted to announce that Land Art Contemporary and DIEP will organize a series of bus excursions to visit Robert Smithson's Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in 2025 and 2026.