Tag Archives: Nancy Holt

THE FILMS OF NANCY HOLT

Friday Films—a project of the Holt / Smithson Foundation—continues with upcoming screenings of Nancy Holt’s PINE BARRENS, the Holt-Robert Smithson collaboration EAST COAST / WEST COAST, and Holt’s THE MAKING OF AMARILLO RAMP.

See links below for details.

FRIDAY FILMS

Film streams begin at 11 am on the West Coast, and end twenty-four hours later.

PINE BARRENS

Friday May 8.

EAST COAST / WEST COAST

Friday, May 15.

THE MAKING OF AMARILLO RAMP

Friday, May 22.

Nancy Holt, from top: The Making of Amarillo Ramp (1973 / 2013); Pine Barrens (1975) (2); Holt and Robert Smithson in East Coast / West Coast (1969, co-directed with Smithson); The Making of Amarillo Ramp (1973 / 2013); Pine Barrens (1975); Sun Tunnels (1978). Images courtesy and © the Holt / Smithson Foundation.

ART-RITE LAUNCH

Join ART-RITE founding co-editor Walter Robinson, Pat Steir, Robin Winters, moderator Carlo McCormick, and host Jeffrey Deitch for a panel discussion and launch of the facsimile reprint of ART-RITE.

Collected in a 600-plus-page volume, this co-publication of Primary Information and Printed Matter contains all twenty issues of the newsprint magazine edited by Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn—who would leave after issue 7—between 1973 and 1978.

(DeAk, Robinson, Sol LeWitt, and Lucy Lippard were among Printed Matter’s 1976 co-founders.)

Contributors to ART-RITE included Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, David Antin, John Baldessari, Jennifer Bartlett, Gregory Battcock, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Scott Burton, Ulises Carrión, Judy Chicago, Lucinda Childs, Christo, Diego Cortez, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Ralston Farina, Richard Foreman, Peggy Gale, Gilbert and George, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Leon Golub, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Julia Heyward, Nancy Holt, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Richard Kern, Lee Krasner, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Babette Mangolte, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rosemary Mayer, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Brian O’Doherty, Genesis P-Orridge, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Judy Pfaff, Lil Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Sylvia Sleigh, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Holly Solomon, Naomi Spector, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Alan Vega, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, and Irene von Zahn.

ART-RITE PANEL and LAUNCH

Tuesday, December 10, at 7 pm.

Jeffrey Deitch

18 Wooster Street, New York City.

From top: Art-Rite (2); Edit DeAk, photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Walter Robinson, photograph by Greenfield-Sanders; Art-Rite facsimile reprint cover; Art-Rite cover by Christo; Art-Rite launch card. Images courtesy and © the photographer, Walter Robinson, Primary Information, and Printed Matter.

NANCY HOLT AT EAI, NYC

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New York Times: “Sun Tunnels,” in Utah, one of Ms. Holt’s most famous works, on a summer solstice sunrise. Credit Ravell Call/Deseret Morning News, via Associated Press

On Saturday April 5th, Electronic Arts Intermix will pay tribute to the land-art pioneer Nancy Holt, who passed away this February at the age of 75. EAI will host a daylong tribute from noon to 7pm in their space at 535 West 22nd St., NYC, featuring eleven of Holt’s moving-image pieces from 1968 to 2013.

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Nancy Holt, image EAI