Pioneering Land Artist Nancy Holt Dies at 75

Artist Nancy Holt, who in the past four years had begun to receive a renewed wave of institutional recognition, died on February 8 due to unknown causes. She was 75. Primarily known for her Land Art works, the most famous of which are her “Sun Tunnels,” Holt was a prolific artist who also worked in film, photography, and artists’ books. A resident of Galisteo, New Mexico for the past decade, Holt died in New York, where she had been receiving medical treatment.