A 2016 documentary on Eva Hesse is notable for its unexpectedly intimate look into the mind of a young sculptor. The film, which will be available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon on August 15, const…
In German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt's recent thirteen-channel video installation, Manifesto, the lines issue from the mouth of a British punk musician, who snarls Arce's tract in between…
Following a 1963 debut in New York, pioneer text painter Gene Beery took up a semi-reclusive life in central California. Idiosyncratic and ever productive, he has become a seminal figure for many youn…
More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
A documentary on the postwar sculptor Eva Hesse (1936–70), directed by Marcie Begleiter, screens at Film Forum in New York this week. In our Summer 1983 issue, historian Ellen H. Johnson compiled exce…
Sotheby’s capped its auction week yesterday with a respectable contemporary day sale that brought in $98 million. With 323 out of 418 lots finding buyers, 80 percent of the works that went on…
This week, Kenny Schachter brought us up to speed on the sales to watch this season. Here’s another to add to the list, from the online world: the web-based auction house Auctionata is…