Should We Cancel David Smith? An Epic New Biography Takes Up the Famed Sculptor’s Violent Side
Michael Brenson's 834-page biography dares to ask what really made the artist a genius.
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Seattle Art Museum, Yale Receive ‘Transformative’ Gifts of Modern Art by Rothko, Krasner, More
The Friday Foundation also gave works to the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Storm King Becomes a Sensation: Why the Upstate New York Sculpture Park Is Now a Destination
The celebrated sculpture park is turning 60 this year.
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With Catalogue Raisonné Underway, David Smith Estate Names Jennifer Field Executive Director
She was previously the director of exhibitions at Di Donna Galleries in New York.
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‘It Will Explode with Color’: David Smith Sculpture Survey Comes to England
The inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International will play host to nearly 40 works by the artists.
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Brancusi and America
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…
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The title of "Claire Falkenstein: Matter in Motion" took its terms from the artist herself, who spoke freely of the energy that ricochets through the universe and animates matter.
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David Smith Estate Restructures, with Artist’s Daughters at Helm
Executive director Peter Stevens is stepping down after 35 years.
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From the Archives: When David Smith Was on the Hunt for a Missing Sculpture, in 1956
The piece had disappeared from the Willard Gallery in New York earlier in the year.
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