Winter 2024 Press Round-Up
Original French translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.
by Patrick Javault
The Art Newspaper – Edition Française, January 19, 2024
“There appear collisions of images and periods such as [Smithson] produced in his writings or in Spiral Jetty, his cinema masterpiece: prehistory, science, science fiction, cinema, Luciferian visions. It's the other subterranean world, that of the experimental and the underground.”
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The Passions of Robert Smithson
by Donald Kuspit
Whitehot Magazine, January 20, 2024
“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 the Spiral Jetty, 1970. “
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by August Davis
The Architect’s Newspaper, January 30, 2024
“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.“
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Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works
by Uzomah Ugwu
Arte Realizzata, February 1, 2024
“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. “
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In Discussion with Lisa Le Feuvre
by Uzomah Ugwu
Arte Realizzata, February 1, 2024
"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.“
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Santa Fe’s New Museum on the Block
by Michael Abatemarco
New Mexico Magazine, February 14, 2024
“Vladem Contemporary, named for donors Ellen and Bob Vladem, opened in September in the city’s Railyard Arts District to grow the Museum of Art’s contemporary collection, provide spaces specifically designed for art based on new media and dedicated to education, and—in keeping with the museum’s original 1917 mission—to create a studio for artists in residence. “
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Robert Smithson, pop et collagiste avant lui-même
[Robert Smithson, pop and collagist before himself]
Original French translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.
by Thibault Bissirier
The Steidz, February 15, 2024
“Focused on the works on paper that Robert Smithson produced in the early 1960s, the exhibition organized by the Marian gallery with the Holt/Smithson Foundation marks a little-known milestone in the artist's career.“
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Robert Smithson “Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works”
by Pascale Krief
Flash Art, February 21, 2024
“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. “
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by Angela Anderson Adams
The Cultural Landscape Foundation, March 8, 2024
“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.“
Installation view: Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus — Early Works, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 13 January – 24 February 2024
Photograph: Rebecca Fanuele
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
