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.