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Mission | Holt/Smithson Foundation
transformed the world of art and ideas. Holt/Smithson Foundation develops their distinctive creative legacies.
Holt and Smithson recalibrated the limits of art, changing what art can be and where art...
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Programs | Holt/Smithson Foundation
2023 Annual Lecture
Rebecca Solnit at the New Mexico Museum of Art
In April 2023, the New Mexico Museum of Art will host the second Annual Lecture, inviting the writer, historian, and activist Rebecca...
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Biography | Holt/Smithson Foundation
Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was a member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, Holt recalibrated the limi...
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Scholarly Texts | Holt/Smithson Foundation
Scholarly Texts
Our Scholarly Text Program commissions and publishes new writing on single artworks by Holt and/or Smithson.
A tool for researchers at all stages, our Scholarly Text Prog...
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Biography | Holt/Smithson Foundation
Born in Passaic in New Jersey, Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938—July 20, 1973) was an artist who expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over fifty years his work, writings, and id...
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Spiral Jetty | Holt/Smithson Foundation
Jetty is a site-specific work, meant to interact with changing conditions of the surrounding water, land, and atmosphere. While located in a relatively barren, unpopulated place, Smithson chose the si...