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The bright creaminess of what was the newly completed sculpture has darkened to a warm sepia, almost as if it were an aged photograph of the thing in addition to the thing itself. The expansion is expanded, in the past. It is done.

The precocious sculptor Eva Hesse, who died of a brain tumor in 1970 at age 34, is considered one of the titans of Post-Minimalist art despite the fact that she only had one solo exhibition in her lifetime, at New York’s Fischbach Gallery in 1968.

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Washington, DC, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Lena Stringari will join the museum as chief of...

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The National Gallery of Art announced that Lena Stringari will join the museum as chief of conservation. Stringari comes to the National Gallery following a long career at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she has served most recently as deputy director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator.

After lying dormant for more than three decades, Eva Hesse's 'Expanded Expansion' returns in a somewhat different form at the Guggenheim.

Do you identify with any particular school of painting?I DON’T THINK I EVER DID any traditional paintings—except what you call Abstract Expressionism. I most loved de Kooning and Gorky, but that was personal—not for what I could take from them. But I know the importance of Kline and Pollock and now I would say Pollock before anyone, but I didn’t feel that way when I was growing up. Oldenburg is an artist that I really believe in. I respect his writings, his person, his energy, his art, t...

SIXTY YEARS AGO, in Artforum’s very first issue, our founding editor, Philip Leider, threw down the gauntlet for art’s autonomy. “Art and artists will flourish when an admiring public buys paintings because they love them; if the myth that buying art is a good investment (in the Wall Street sense) is perpetuated, the result can only be disaster for both.” I took his words—from a blistering review of two 1961 publications on art and money—as an early expression of the magazine’s eth...

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A focused exhibition devoted to influential and experimental artist Eva Hesse (b. 1936, Hamburg, Germany; d. 1970, New York) is on view July 8 through