Last Thursday, an art installer perched on a high ladder was applying small squares of gold leaf to a huge expanse of wall in the Harlem gallery Gavin Brown's Enterprise, putting the finishing…
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…
In 1969, shortly after Rome’s Galleria l’Attico moved into a new location in the city, a former garage on Via Beccaria, the Greek artist Jannis Kounellis ushered in 12 horses and tethered them to the…