Winter 2023 Press Round-Up

Nancy Holt’s Dark Star Park
The Cultural Landscape Foundation / March 8, 2024
by Angela Anderson Adams
Arlington Public Art’s efforts to secure the future of Nancy Holt’s "Dark Star Park" (1979-1984), Arlington, Virginia’s first County-commissioned public artwork, is currently underway. This effort will require the support and coordination of a number of internal County agencies as well as the surrounding community, which views the work as an iconic feature of the neighborhood.

Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus - Early Works
Flash Art / February 21, 2024
by Pascale Krief
The works on paper mark a moment when Smithson’s oeuvre was in transition, breaking with his first body of pictorial works — which were close to abstract expressionism — yet still anticipating his minimalist and conceptual work.

Gropius Bau Berlin shows Nancy Holt’s extensive work in Circles of Light
[Gropius Bau Berlin zeigt Nancy Holts umfangreiches Werk Circles of Light]
Original German translated to English via Google Translate - please forgive any errors or omissions.
Kabinett / February 15, 2024
From March 22nd to July 21st, the Gropius Bau is showing the most comprehensive presentation of work by Nancy Holt in Germany to date.

Robert Smithson, pop and collagist before himself
[Robert Smithson, pop et collagiste avant lui-même]
Original French translated to English via Google Translate - please forgive any errors or omissions.
The Steidz / February 15, 2024
by Thibault Bissirier
Focused on the works on paper that Robert Smithson produced in the early 1960s, the exhibition organized by the Marian Goodman gallery with Holt/Smithson Foundation marks a little-known milestone in the artist's career.

Santa Fe's New Museum on the Block
New Mexico Magazine / February 14, 2024
by Michael Abatemarco
Vladem Contemporary ... opened in September ... to grow the Museum of Art’s contemporary collection, provide spaces specifically designed for art based on new media and dedicated to education, and … to create a studio for artists in residence.

In Discussion with Lisa Le Feuvre
Arte Realizzata / February 1, 2024
by Uzomah Ugwu
Smithson's overall artistic practice made radical shifts in thinking about what art can be and where it can be found. These early drawings show his beginnings; they show ideas that are familiar with his better-known earthworks and sculptures and reveal where they started.

Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works
Arte Realizzata / February 1, 2024
by Uzomah Ugwu
Marian Goodman Gallery and Holt/Smithson Foundation are pleased to announce the exhibition "Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works" opened on the 13th of January and will close on the 24th of February 2024.

Groundswell at the Nasher Sculpture Center gives the women of land art the retrospective they deserve
The Architect's Newspaper / January 30, 2024
by August Davis
Curated and developed over a seven-year period by Nasher assistant curator Dr. Leigh A. Arnold, "Groundswell" literally breaks new ground, presenting a survey of 12 American women artists who pioneered and expanded practices of land art.

Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus - Early Works
Meer / January 27, 2024
by Iman Ashraf
Developed with Professor Adrian Rifkin, this exhibition focuses on Smithson’s works on paper made in the early 1960s, presenting drawings and collages that set the ground for his studies of entropy and the fall of modernism.

The Passions of Robert Smithson
Whitehot Magazine / January 20, 2024
by Donald Kuspit
Suzaan Boettger, an art historian, has written a scholarly tour de force about the Catholic artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973), famous for his earth art, particularly "Spiral Jetty," 1970.

Nancy Holt: Landscape Time
[Nancy Holt: el tiempo del paisaje]
Original Spanish translated to English via Google Translate - please forgive any errors or omissions.
Litoral Press / January 14, 2024
by Amalia Cross
In astronomy, the occultation of a star by the interposition of another celestial body is known as an eclipse. While one shines, the other is not visible. Something similar happened to Nancy Holt, who remained in the shadow of the American artists associated with land art and behind the figure of Robert Smithson, her partner since 1963.

Lisa Le Feuvre and Adrian Rifkin discuss Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus - Early Works
Marian Goodman Gallery Presents / January 13, 2024
Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, and Professor Adrian Rifkin discuss "Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works," on view at Galerie Marian Goodman in Paris through 24 February, 2024.

Smithson Before Land
[Smithson prima della Land]
Original Italian translated to English via Google Translate - please forgive any errors or omissions.
Il Giornale Dell'Arte / January 11, 2024
by Luana De Micco
An exhibition by Marian Goodman is dedicated to the American artist who created the famous "Spiral Jetty" which retraces the stages preceding the experience of Land Art.

Inside the Spiral Unearths Robert Smithson’s Childhood, Catholicism, Art, and Death
The Village Voice / December 20, 2023
by Sally Eckhoff
Suzaan Boettger’s biography of the artist best known for "Spiral Jetty" looks at his passion for art and religion, and his obsession with his dead brother.

Installation view: Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus — Early Works, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 13 January – 24 February 2024
Photograph: Rebecca Fanuele
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

Archived News

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.