Page 9 - Smithson Foundation News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Land Art: investigating humanity’s relationship to nature The 1960s movement popularized taking art outside of the museum Upon first glance, Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking (1967) appears to be a simple monochrome photograph of a grassy field with trees in the distance. The photo, however, only serves as a form of documentation of the artwork itself, which is Long’s interaction with the terrain. This avant-garde form of artmaking is classified as Land Art. Also known as Earth art, Land Art is created with the surrounding landscape, often taking the form of a performance, sculptu...

Former Documenta Advisor Was Tied to Nazis – New evidence has surfaced revealing that the influential German art historian Werner Haftmann was a member of the SA, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing. Haftmann was the founding director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie and an early influence on Documenta. Writer Karin Wieland and sociologist Heinz Bude uncovered evidence that Haftmann joined the SA and the Nazi Party in 1933, despite him testifying after World War II that he had never officially been a member of either organization. ( ART MARKET Sprüth Magers Now Represents Nancy Holt �...

Holt/Smithson Foundation announces representation of Nancy Holt by Sprüth Magers Nancy Holt on a NYC rooftop, October 1977. Photo: Leandro Katz. © Holt-Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA/New York. SANTA FE, NM .- Nancy Holt (1938-2014) recalibrated the limits of art. She expanded the places where art could be found and embraced the new media of her time. A pioneer of site-specific installation and the moving image, Holt was a member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements. Her rich artistic output spanned concrete poetry, audio, film, video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral ge...

Lisa Le Feuvre, executive director, Holt-Smithson Foundation. Photo courtesy of Claudine Hartzel. Lisa Le Feuvre, the head of the Holt-Smithson Foundation, which she has led since 2017, spends a lot of time reading. In fact, it’s how she begins most of her mornings, although she doesn’t consider it a luxury. Education for all is one of her passions. We spoke with Le Feuvre about her recent work with the artists’ foundation, what she’s been reading of late, and why she advocates for literacy initiatives. What are you working on right now? We are a young organization, and with each da...

Two of the most famous pieces of Land Art—Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty(1970) and Nancy Holt's (1973-76), each sited remotely in the Utah landscape—are more widely known through photography, writing and legend than firsthand experience. Continuing the late couple’s investigation of places on the planet at once real and imagined, the Holt/Smithson Foundation has just invited five contemporary artists—Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, Joan Jonas, and Oscar Santillán—to develop a proposal for a new work that will use an uninhabited island in Maine, purchased sight-un...