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DIRECTION. INVISIBLE. DETAIL. Each of these words is the complete title of one of Giovanni Anselmo’s signature artworks, and each is testament to the radical aims of his meticulous practice. Anselmo was an integral figure of Arte Povera, a curatorial concept of the late 1960s that described a dozen or so Italian artists who largely eschewed representation in order to create situations of perceptual experience. Anselmo’s work bridged sculpture and conceptualism with razor-sharp precision and dry wit. His subtle interventions orient viewers to the often overlooked forces that define human ex...

FEW TITLES ENCAPSULATE an exhibition’s argument as succinctly as “by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022).” Curator Karen Moss borrows that “by” from a slim volume of the same name, a collection of the artist’s compositions issued through the “Great Bear” pamphlet series of Something Else Press in 1965. The preposition’s pliability is the point. Most obviously, “by” denotes authorship, as in a corpus of texts written by Alison Knowles, yet it also suggests facilitation, a process brought about by means of Alison Knowles, or proximity, i.e., close by Alison Knowle...