Photograph of Eva Hesse, ca. 1969. Allen Memorial Art Museum, gift of Helen Hesse Charash, 1977 (all images courtesy AMAM, unless otherwise noted) OBERLIN, OH — “We like to think that we discovered ...

Her compositions by this time were dynamic and full of action, communicated through urgently scribbled and uninhibited forms that at times suggest windblown fields of wildflowers scattered among ...

Eva Hesse, “The first money I made for my artwork” (n.d.) (image via Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College) How important is it to control one’s image, to have mastery over one’s oeuvre? As a ...

Eva Hesse (1936-1970) has long been recognized by artists and critics as a sculptor of exceptional talent and prodigious influence. The public has rarely seen her work, however, because its fragility ...

Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt celebrates the close friendship between two of the most significant American artists of the postwar era: Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007).

Glenn Spellman, a New York appraiser, treasure hunter, and art dealer, thought he had found something special last fall when he came across an abstract painting signed E.H. on the website for the ...

When an animal is trapped in resin, a bit of natural alchemy happens. The liquid begins to harden into an impenetrable shell. Life ends, but the creature is perfectly preserved. Under the right ...

"Eva Hesse/Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction" is on view at Acquavella Gallery in New York City until June 18, 2021. Installation shot of Wilke’s work. Courtesy of Acquavella Galleries. Courtesy of ...

Sculpture can tell us a lot about the surface of things. Classical sculpture tells us how a muscle flexes, how a robe folds over a knee, how breasts sit on a body. Modern sculpture can do more: ...

Two exhibitions, one uptown at the Jewish Museum, organized by Elisabeth Sussman and Fred Wasserman, and the other downtown at the Drawing Center, organized by Sussman and Catherine de Zegher, honor ...