“Akari: Sculpture by Other Means occupies the Museum’s second-floor galleries, with three distinct areas that together explore the versatility, impact, and flexibility of Noguchi’s exquisite paper-bamboo-and-wire lanterns. Including more than 100 Akari, representing about forty individual models, the exhibition allows visitors to experience the ways… Read More
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Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold at The Met Breuer, January 23 – April 14, 2019
“Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold is the first retrospective of Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) in the United States in more than four decades—will reassess the artist’s legacy through a selection of exquisite sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and environments made between 1931 and 1968. The founder of Spatialism… Read More
Mario Merz: Igloos at Pirelli HangarBicocca, through February 24, 2019
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents ‘Igloos’, a show by Mario Merz (Milan, 1925–2003), bringing together his most iconic group of works: the ‘Igloos’, dating from 1968 until the end of his life. The exhibition spans the whole 5,500 square metres of the Navate and the Cubo of… Read More
Mildred Thompson: Against the Grain at New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), through August 31st, 2019
“The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Mildred Thompson: Against the Grain marking the first solo museum presentation of the experimental wood works of the American artist Mildred Thompson (1936-2003) in more than thirty years. The exhibition features three rare early Wood Pictures recently acquired… Read More
Pablo Reinoso: “L’Arche” through October 21 & “Le Cercle” through November 7, Paris
Pablo Reinoso presents two spectacular works in a public space with Waddington Custot: ‘‘L’Arche’’ in front of the Petit Palais and ‘‘Le Cercle’’ in the middle of the octagonal basin in the Jardin des Tuileries. “L’Arche”, made from matt black painted steel and 6-metre high,… Read More
Pietro Consagra: Frontal Sculpture 1947–1967 at Robilant + Voena, London, September 27 – November 16, 2018
“Consagra is one of Europe’s most renowned post-war sculptors. Born in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, in 1944 he moved to Rome, the “open city” that was beginning its civic and material reconstruction after the dramatic years of World War II. The artist developed his highly… Read More
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017 at The Met Breuer, September 6 – December 2, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 presents the extraordinary and previously unknown sculptures of acclaimed American artist Jack Whitten (1939–2018), who has long been celebrated for his work as an innovative abstract painter. Featuring 40 sculptures and 18 of his most notable… Read More
Leonor Antunes: the last days in galliate at Pirelli Hangar Biccoca, Milan, September 14, 2018 – January 13, 2019
“Pirelli HangarBicocca presents the exhibition the last days in galliate, dedicated to Berlin-based artist Leonor Antunes (born 1972 in Lisbon). Using traditional materials—such as rope, wood, brass, leather, rubber and cork—and employing ancient artisan or manual techniques, Antunes creates elegant sculptures and installations that investigate… Read More
Constantin Brancusi Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, July 22, 2018 – February 18, 2019
“Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) first exhibited his sculpture in New York at the 1913 Armory Show, alongside work by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other vanguard artists. The presentation of international modern art was met with fanfare, and Brancusi’s sculptures were later singled out… Read More
Giacometti at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 8 – September 12, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “A preeminent artist of the twentieth century, Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and the unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary he developed through his experiments… Read More
Mary Corse: A Survey in Light at Whitney Museum of American Art, June 8 – November 25, 2018
“For more than five decades, Mary Corse (b. 1945) has pursued a central question in her work: How can a painting embody light? This challenge has long fascinated artists seeking to translate light’s ephemeral glow into color and material form, but Corse has approached the problem differently. Rather than… Read More
Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams at The Museum of Modern Art, May 26, 2018 – January 1, 2019
“‘I am a designer, an architect, a sculptor, engineer, artist,’ said Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015). In the late 1970s in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which was rapidly redefining itself following independence from Belgium, Kingelez began making intricately constructed sculptures of miniature… Read More