The lone woman in a movement dominated by men, she made sculptures and paintings that are tough, precarious, and unflaggingly original. Her career blossomed late in life.
"Igloos" assembles thirty sculptures that Arte Povera stalwart Mario Merz produced between 1968 and the year he died, 2003.
Named in 1967 by the critic Germano Celant, Arte Povera constituted less a strict movement than a loose fraternity of artists working in Italy with "poor," everyday materials—over and against the…
The poetics of materials Marisa Merz explores in her art emerge from encounters with the textures of daily life.
This museum-quality overview of works by Italian artist Fausto Melotti (1901–1986) contained thirty-eight major sculptures, installations, and drawings, representing most phases of the artist’s long c…
Some of the worst weather of the winter didn't keep collectors away from the Seventh Regiment Armory building on Manhattan's Upper East Side last night for the opening of the ADAA's annual fair, The…
Painter Antoni Tàpies, descendant of Picasso and Miró, did not leave an heir apparent
The jungle connection animates Pino Pascali's steel-wool bridge and chimpanzee imagery.
Since returning from a self-imposed artistic exhile in 1983, the Arte Povera veteran has steadily replicated luxuriant natural forms using space-age materials.
