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Stepping off the elevator onto the seventh floor of Pace’s West 25th Street headquarters, viewers stand at the edge of a field of sculptures that are a mix of formal/classical and exotic/non-Western forms and surfaces that gently pulsate, oscillate and, from certain perspectives, dematerialize. This is Tara Donovan: Stratagems, the artist’s current show of eleven discrete sculptures (all 2024) ranging in height from 8–10 feet made entirely from CD-ROMs.

In Hank Willis Thomas’s LOVERULES—From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the material is the spectacle of American media itself, and the most commercial parts of it: advertisements, sports, logos, slogans—in this place, the United States, at this time—now, or what passes for now, which in Thomas’s hands includes the last four hundred years.

Art - Prior to its temporary closure for renovation in 2025, Centre Pompidou bids farewell to Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi with a comprehensive

SOHO Gubei by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)

I Although our social relations were almost entirely limited to chance encounters at Queens College (we were both members of the art department), I recall once meeting Richard Serra at…

A portrait bust by Brancusi that was long considered lost has resurfaced and is now on public display in Bucharest, Romania.

What is it like to be “of one’s time” and not? Leon Polk Smith was a prime progenitor of American hard-edged abstraction whose non-objective pedigree as a protégé of the painter and philanthropist Hilla Rebay, and subsequent track record of showing in the Betty Parsons and Egan Gallery early on, puts him squarely in the pocket of post-war American art ascendancy yet his legacy has subsequently remained a relatively independent part of that particular epic.

Carl Andre, a towering figure in Minimalist sculpture renowned for his austere linear and grid-format works and for facing a murder charge in the death of his third wife, Ana Mendieta, died in hospice in Manhattan on January 24 at the age of eighty-eight.

ONE OF THE MOST DRASTIC works in the Jewish Museum’s Primary Structures show last season was Carl Andre’s Lever––a single line of 139 unjoined firebricks. This brick causeway, meeting one…

This nakiri knife by Allday Goods features a bao bun-inspired handle made from London restaurant group BAO’s plastic waste