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News Eva Hesse drawing exhibit at Oberlin College shows how her art triumphed over tragedies of a troubled life Updated: Apr. 03, 2022, 10:30 a.m. | Published: Apr. 03, 2022, 9:50 a.m.
At times more coy than carnal, works by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams explore eroticism through ambiguity, ...
A new documentary vividly captures the life of sculptor Eva Hesse, whose dripping, oozing forms were, according to art critic Hilton Kramer, "unlike anything the eye had been accustomed to 'accept ...
How Eva Hesse Embraced Absurdity in Life and Art In this exclusive clip from the documentary Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Holt, and others reflect on the intimate character of Hesse’s sculptures.
Eva Hesse first became known in the New York art world of the 1960s by making colorful abstract-expressionist paintings, but it was her departure from the art scene and a lengthy return to her ...
Hesse's art is held in major collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum. She passed away in 1970, leaving a lasting influence on contemporary sculpture.
The art crowd probably looks forward to "Eva Hesse" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as eagerly as any exhibition on this year's calendar. The show opens Saturday.
Since her untimely death in 1970, the sculptor and painter Eva Hesse has become a cult figure. An exhibition of her work opens this week at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Is this mere ...
The postminimalist sculptor Eva Hesse produced strange and beautiful work in unusual materials — rope, latex, discarded metal parts — and died young, in 1970, of a brain tumor, as her career ...
OBERLIN, OH — “We like to think that we discovered Eva Hesse,” reads a line from a 1954 profile of the then-18-year-old artist in Seventeen magazine, before acknowledging that Hesse came on ...
Yes and no. Resins change, like taste and fashions, but Hesse’s work has taken its place as a seminal part of 20th-century art, and this indispensable film will be shining a light on it, and her ...