Winter 2024 Press Round-Up

Is This Anything? The Art Institute's Nancy Holt Exhibit and the Art of Looking
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Chicago Tribune / January 6, 2025
by Christopher Borrelli
[Nancy Holt] liked forcing you to think about how observant you were. She made you recognize your perception. She wanted you to notice. She did this many ways for decades. What the Art Institute is showing ["Nancy Holt: Seeing in the Round"] through April was maybe her simplest way: Holt, who died in 2014, welded steel pipes to look through. Ever played pirate using a cardboard roll for a spyglass? It’s a reductive description, but picture that, it’ll point you in the right direction.

How a Utah Student’s Thesis Led to Spiral Jetty Joining the National Register of Historic Places
The Salt Lake Tribune / December 21, 2024
by Sean P. Means
One of Utah’s largest and best-known works of art has received a new national recognition — thanks to a Utah State University graduate student’s thesis project. Applying to put "Spiral Jetty" on the register was a project by Amy Reid, a graduate student at USU working toward her master’s degree in landscape architecture.

Archived News

Florida Friday Films

In May of 1971 Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt returned to Florida to visit the Florida Keys, with Smithson seeking potential locations for his Island Maze and Forking Island. While these hypothetical earthworks exist today solely through Smithson's drawings, on this trip Smithson did plant an earthwork he called Mangrove Ring—which is also the subject of a short film of the same name by Nancy Holt. 

Chapter Seven of Tuesday Texts

We are happy to announce that throughout October we are publishing a seventh 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 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.