“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
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
“Scofield Thayer (1889–1982) was editor and co-owner of the Dial, a journal that published writing and art by the European and American avant-garde (many of whom are pictured nearby) from 1919 to 1926. An aesthete, he was a brilliant abstract thinker and a complex, conflicted… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, artists working in the Western classical tradition favored idealized statuary. Typically, marble sculptures of the flawless human form were set high on pedestals and made otherworldly by their lack of color. By contrast, within… Read More
“The occasion for this selective survey of Leon Golub’s work is the recent gift of two paintings, Gigantomachy II (1966) and Vietnamese Head (1970), to The Met. Born in Chicago, Golub (1922 – 2004) occupies a singular position in the history of mid to late… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Delirious times demand delirious art. Irrationality was a subject of great interest among artists after World War II, and many created works designed to simulate or stimulate delirium. Such objects operate at the outer limits of reason, flirting with spatial, behavioral,… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Sotto il sasso sta l’anguilla (under the rock is an eel) is an expression from the Dolomites, the native region of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007). It suggests that hidden wonder awaits discovery in common things—the essence of Sottsass’s designs.… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “This exhibition is the first U.S. retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004). After World War II, Brazil underwent a period of rapid industrialization and development, epitomized by the inauguration in 1960 of a new modern capital, Brasília.… Read More
“My own education [began] in my native hills, going with me— these hills wherever I went, looking never more wonderful than they did to me in Paris, Berlin, or Provence.” — Marsden Hartley, “On the Subject of Nativeness—A Tribute to Maine,” 1937 “American painter and poet… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Over her extraordinary fifty-year career, Marisa Merz (born 1926) has created a deeply personal body of work that exists in the interstices between life and art. In Turin in the 1960s, Merz gained prominence as part of the circle of artists… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “This exhibition, the largest to date for Kerry James Marshall (born 1955), spans the artist’s remarkable thirty-five-year career. Born in Birmingham before the Civil Rights Act and having witnessed the Watts rebellion in Los Angeles in 1965, Marshall has long chronicled… Read More
“Diane Arbus (American, 1923–1971) made most of her photographs in New York City, where she was born and died, and where she worked in locations such as Times Square, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus… Read More
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