Eva Hesse at the opening reception for ‘Eccentric Abstraction,’ 1966 (photo by Norman Goldman, all images courtesy Zeitgeist Films) Telling the story of Eva Hesse’s life and work presents one major ...

A comprehensive new documentary on Eva Hesse, one of the most innovative 1960s artists, will premiere in New York in April. Hesse’s Jewish family fled Nazi Germany in the 1940s and settled in New York ...

Eva Hesse’s monumental work of art “Expanded Expansion” was kept in storage at the Guggenheim Museum for nearly 35 years. In the 1990s, the work was deemed unexhibitable. In 2000, the work was ...

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 ...

As if she knew that her time on Earth would be brief, Eva Hesse worked diligently and prolifically. In 1972, two years after her death at age of 34, New York’s Guggenheim mounted a memorial exhibition ...

In 1969, the 33-year-old sculptor Eva Hesse destroyed many of her artworks. She had just been diagnosed with the brain tumor that would kill her the following year, and presumably the pieces she ...

Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke, two of the most important artists of the late 20th century, have been brought together for the first time in a comparative study of their respective careers. This takes the ...

The 17 thin slices of "Augment" (1968) are oriented on the floor like cold cuts packed for grocery shoppers, in a graded pile. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland ...

Eva Hesse's art career spanned a mere 10 years - from ages 24 to 34 - but in that short amount of time she rethought sculpture, as a major player in the mid-'60s post-minimalism anti-form movement, ...

In titling "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at the Berkeley Art Museum, guest co-curator Briony Fer coined a new term to indicate the gray zone between avowed artworks and inchoate or abandoned efforts. Hesse ...

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