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A second-floor windowsill provides an unlikely perch for this sculpture from the series “Dwellings” by Charles Simonds, known for his tiny clay constructions…
"LET US SUPPOSE," WROTE George Kubler, "that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to…
IF YOU HAVE EVER taken the stairs at what used to be the Whitney Museum of American Art—Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist masterpiece on New York’s Upper East Side—you have almost certainly encountered the work of Charles Simonds, though you may not have realized it. One of only two pieces in the Whitney’s collection that did not head downtown when the institution moved to the Meatpacking District in 2015 (the other being Nicole Eisenman’s Exploding Whitney Mural, 1995), Simonds’s permanent installation huddles unobtrusively above the stairwell’s only window. It is a miniature village, an apparently