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...season. It deserves attention from anyone who cares about the history of art made by women in America -- and, in general, of sculpture since the 1960s. Hesse died of brain cancer in 1970 at 34, an age at which most artists' careers are barely under way. Yet no American sculptor in her generation has more to tell us, through her work, about being a woman. To an astonishing degree, she personalized Minimalism, the artistic context to which she belonged, taking it out of the constraints of theory and system and making it an instrument of feeling -- of telling an inner...
...images are more than mere enactments of illness, still less of oppression. She left a deep mark on American sculpture, which this show documents, but she never wanted to see her work snugly categorized as women's art. Quite the contrary: she was a sculptor who, like all serious artists, wanted her work to join the general argument of modern images, uncramped by gender or race niches. "The best way to beat discrimination in art is by art," she brusquely replied to a list of questions a journalist sent her for an article on women artists. "Excellence...
...Hesse was a pivotal American sculptor...
...tenacity." When Klein died in 1974, Karan took over the reins, just four years after arriving at the company. By this time she had married her first husband, Mark Karan, a clothing-boutique owner, and had given birth to their daughter Gabby. Donna later divorced Karan and married sculptor Stephan Weiss, whom she had known as a teenager...
...student-run organization, it was very well-connected. Not only were members of the Society able to borrow works from collections like that of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, members were "even friendly with the artists themselves," Dreifus says. "For example, Alexander Calder, the wire sculptor, had a solo exhibition for the Harvard Society. They invited him to Harvard to construct everything here and exhibit it. And he stayed with Eddie Warburg, who was one of the men in the society. He stayed in his room in Holworthy and...constructed everything there...