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…
On the occasion of the 1962 exhibition “Fernand Léger: Five Themes and Variations” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the curator Henry Geldzahler penned the following essay, which…
Sometime in the mid-1940s, the artist Luchita Hurtado, then in her 20s, boarded a Madison Avenue bus in Manhattan to go to an opening at Pierre Matisse’s gallery on East 57th Street. “There was…
In honor of the Museum Ludwig’s show “Fernand Léger: Painting in Space,” we turn back to the February 1967 issue of ARTnews, in which Marcelin Pleynet made an argument against the French modernist pai…