Layli Long Soldier
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Artforum / March 2025
by Melissa Ragain
Layli Long Soldier has been widely recognized for her command of the visual aspects of poetic form and her use of “documentary poetics,” drawing upon found texts, historical documents, and events. While her sculptural and process-based works have not yet received commensurate critical attention, her book "We/Wé," forthcoming from Graywolf Press, collects these projects for the first time, presenting them alongside related essays and poetry. [Article includes reference to Holt/Smithson Foundation's commissioned poems for our partnership with the World Weather Network.]

When the Water Falls: How Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty' Tells the Story of a Changing Climate
Orion Magazine / February 25, 2025
by Madeleine Watts
Most pieces of land art are built in country so remote that it’s unlikely you or I will ever see them. They exist, primarily, as ideas. In the summer of 2022, I found myself thinking about one of those ideas: Robert Smithson’s "Spiral Jetty." I was writing a novel about water and grief in the American Southwest and, not long after printing out the first messy draft, I bought Smithson’s collected writings. I couldn’t stop looking at the cover, a black-and-white portrait of the artist, surrounded by water in the middle of one of the most arid places in the United States.

Nancy Holt: "Artist, Feminist, Mystic" and a Legacy Reclaimed
artnet / February 21, 2025
by Katie White
"Nancy Holt: Power Systems" at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, brings to life several of the artist's most ambitious projects.

Bridging Art, Nature and Community: Inside the Land Art Museum's Bold Experiment
Observer / February 14, 2025
by Renata Maiblum
This ambitious project in Norway offers an immersive, non-commercial approach to land art, fostering deeper connections between people and nature.

Robert Smithson's Broken Circle / Spiral Hill Gains Monument Status and Opens for Public Visits
designboom / February 13, 2025
by Thomai Tsimpou
Land Art Contemporary and Holt/Smithson Foundation announce that Robert Smithson’s Broken Circle/Spiral Hill is officially designated as a provincial monument by the Province of Drenthe, securing a sustainable future for the landmark earthwork in Emmen, Netherlands. Created in 1971, the artwork is the only surviving earthwork by Smithson outside the United States and is now protected for future generations. Typically closed to the public due to its location on private land, Broken Circle/Spiral Hill will be accessible this year, allowing visitors to experience the site across all four seasons.

Hirshhorn Acquires 175 Artworks, Expanding the Full Breadth of Modern and Contemporary Art in Its 50th Year
Smithsonian  / January 27, 2025
2024 additions include works by more than 60 rising and canonical artists including Laurie Anderson, Theaster Gates, Nancy Holt [Electrical System (1982)], Rashid Johnson, Mika Rottenberg and Dread Scott.

This Tiny Maine Island Was Too Beautiful For These Artists to Alter
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Bangor Daily News / January 22, 2025
by Emily Burnham
Acclaimed land artists Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt bought Little Fort Island sight unseen in 1971, with plans to transform it into one of the couple’s earthworks — a living piece of art inspired by the changing state of our planet. But when the couple finally visited the island in 1972, both agreed it was too beautiful to alter. It has remained untouched ever since ... Now, more than 50 years after the couple first acquired the island, [Holt/Smithson Foundation] is in the midst of the multi-year Island Project, with five artists set to create works inspired by Holt and Smithson and by Little Fort Island, and its ephemeral, ever-changing nature.

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.